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Subaru Telescope Spots Galaxies From The Early Universe
A team of astronomers have used the Subaru Telescope to look back more than 13 billion years to find 7 early galaxies. Credit: NASA/WMAP Science Team
It’s an amazing thing, staring into deep space with the help of a high-powered telescope. In addition to being able to through the vast reaches of space, one is also able to effectively see through time.
Using the Subaru Telescope’s Suprime-Cam, a team of astronomers has done just that. In short, they looked back 13 billion years and discovered 7 early galaxies that appeared quite suddenly within 700 million years of the Big Bang. In so doing, they discovered clues to one of astronomy’s most burning questions: when and how early galaxies formed in our universe.(…)
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Post tags: Big Bang, cosmic reionization, Hubble Space Telescope, Lyman-alpha emitter galaxies, Subaru Telescope
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/116498/subaru-telescope-spots-galaxies-from-the-early-universe/
