Infant Galaxies Merging Near 'Cosmic Dawn'
Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 10:30
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers using the combined power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a far-flung trio of primitive galaxies nestled inside an enormous blob of primordial gas nearly 13 billion light-years from Earth.