Tuesday 28 March 2017

Astronomers find unexpected, dust-obscured star formation in distant galaxy


STELLAR CHEMISTRY
Astronomers find unexpected, dust-obscured star formation in distant galaxy Amherst MA (SPX) Mar 28, 2017 - Pushing the limits of the largest single-aperture millimeter telescope in the world, and coupling it with gravitational lensing, University of Massachusetts Amherst astronomer Alexandra Pope and colleagues report that they have detected a surprising rate of star formation, four times higher than previously detected, in a dust-obscured galaxy behind a Frontier Fields cluster. As Pope explai ... more

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