Image Showing Rapid Star-Forming Galaxy (IMAGE)

Durham University

Image Showing Rapid Star-Forming Galaxy

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This is a Hubble Space Telescope observation showing the red 'arc' of the rapid star forming galaxy MS1358arc -- seen as it was 12.5 billion years ago. The galaxy is magnified by a factor of 10 by the younger foreground galaxies.

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Dr Johan Richard, Durham University.

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