Astronomers Use Cosmic Lens to Find Distant Galaxy (IMAGE)

University of California - Davis

Astronomers Use Cosmic Lens to Find Distant Galaxy

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Astronomers used the gravity of a massive galaxy cluster as a lens to spot an incredibly distant galaxy, about 13.1 billion years in the past. They used the Hubble Space Telescope to find the galaxy and confirmed its age and distance with instruments at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.

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NASA/Keck/Austin Hoag/Marusa Bradac

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