A dwarf galaxy from the APOSTLE project

A dwarf galaxy from the APOSTLE project

Credit: J. Turnbull/K. Oman/APOSTLE simulation team created with PySPHViewer (A. Benitez-Llambay)

A dwarf galaxy from the APOSTLE project, seen in dark matter density (greyscale) with overlaid gas density (purple-yellow). APOSTLE is a collection of smoothed particle hydrodynamics cosmological simulations of galaxy formation and evolution. The simulations being visualised were carried out at the memory-intensive DiRAC facility (i.e. cosma).