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Astronomers Catch a Galactic Threesome in the Act
A combined image from the Spitzer, Hubble, and Subaru telescopes show this structure to be three galaxies merging into one (NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI/NAOJ/Subaru)
An enormous and incredibly luminous distant galaxy has turned out to actually be three galaxies in the process of merging together, based on the latest observations from ALMA as well as the Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes. Located 13 billion light-years away, this galactic threesome is being seen near the very beginning of what astronomers call the “Cosmic Dawn.”
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© Jason Major for Universe Today, 2013. |
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Post tags: ALMA, cosmic dawn, galaxies, Himiko, Hubble, NRAO, Spitzer, Subaru, universe
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/106652/astronomers-catch-a-galactic-threesome-in-the-act/
