Thursday 28 August 2014

Best View Yet of Merging Galaxies in Distant Universe

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Best View Yet of Merging Galaxies in Distant Universe
Paris (SPX) Aug 28, 2014 - Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), and many other telescopes on the ground and in space, an international team of astronomers has obtained the best view yet of a collision that took place between two galaxies when the Universe was only half its current age. They enlisted the help of a galaxy-sized magnifying glass to reveal otherwise invisible detail. These new ... more


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