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New powerful telescopes allow direct imaging of nascent galaxies 12 billion light years away

  • Written by J. Xavier Prochaska, Professor of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of California, Santa Cruz
imageArtist's impression of a quasar shining through a galaxy's 'super halo' of hydrogen gas.A. Angelich (NRAO/AUI/NSF), CC BY-ND

How does a galaxy like our own Milky Way form? Until now there’s been a lot of inferring involved in answering that question.

The basic story is that gas collects toward the center of roughly spherical...

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