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Sunday, October 28, 2012

Hubble's Law - A Simulation

I recently found a cool simulation on the web that interactively demonstrates Hubble's Law. You can create and destroy galaxies, change the value of Hubble's Constant, and watch things unfold. The link is here:

http://carma.astro.umd.edu/AWE/deploy/Hubble.html

Pretty cool stuff!
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