Seeking the earliest galaxies with cosmic telescopes

Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 06:30 in Astronomy & Space

(Phys.org)—With a recent NSF award, UA scientists will use galaxy clusters as astronomical lenses to peer farther into the depths of space than any manmade telescope is capable of viewing - to the time when the universe's earliest stars and galaxies still were forming from the gravitational collapse of gas and dark matter.

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