Ancient galaxy cluster contains 'modern' galaxies

Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 08:00 in Astronomy & Space

A team of astronomers including Ivelina Momcheva of the Carnegie Observatories has discovered the most distant cluster of galaxies ever found. In a surprising twist, the young cluster born just 2.8 billion years after the Big Bang appears remarkably similar to the much older present-day galaxy clusters...

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