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This image shows a volume renderings of a cosmology simulation performed at NERSC. The simulation models cosmological phenomena known as "semi-local strings." These structures are thought to have occured briefly in time early in the formation of the universe - short after the "big bang," but prior to the formation of stars and galaxies. More information.