Astronomers Observe Early Stages of Milky Way-like Galaxies

Astronomers Observe Early Stages of Milky Way-like Galaxies Santa Cruz CA (SPX) Mar 28, 2017 - For decades, astronomers have found distant galaxies by detecting the characteristic way their gas absorbs light from a bright quasar in the background. But efforts to observe the light emitted by these same galaxies have mostly been unsuccessful. Now, a team of astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile has observed emissions from two distant galaxies initially detecte ... more

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