Distant Galaxy (IMAGE)

University of Copenhagen

Distant Galaxy

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To the left is an image from the Nordic Optical Telescope of one of the quasars researchers have looked at. After having removed the quasar light from the image, the distant galaxy appears, which is indicated by an arrow in the image to the right. They discovered that the galaxies from the very early universe had a surprisingly large quantity of heavy elements.

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Nordic Optical Telescope

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