Wednesday, March 29, 2017

Astronomers find unexpected, dust-obscured star formation in distant galaxy

03/29/2017 01:06 PM EDT

Hubble Space Telescope image of the field containing a massive foreground galaxy cluster

Pushing the limits of the largest single-aperture millimeter telescope in the world, and coupling it with gravitational lensing, University of Massachusetts Amherst astronomer Alexandra Pope and colleagues report that they have detected a surprising rate of star formation, four times higher than previously detected, in a dust-obscured galaxy behind a Frontier Fields cluster.


Full story at http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/umass-amherst-astronomers-find-unexpected

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University of Massachusetts Amherst


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