Artist's Impression, COSMOS-AzTEC-1 (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Artist's Impression, COSMOS-AzTEC-1

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Artist's impression of the monster galaxy COSMOS-AzTEC-1. This galaxy is located 12.4 billion light-years away and is forming stars 1,000 times more rapidly than our Milky Way galaxy. ALMA observations revealed dense gas concentrations in the disk, and intense star formation in those concentrations.

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National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

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