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Early disk galaxy puts formation models in a spin

May 21, 2020

Published today in Nature, an international team of researchers has observed a massive, rotating disk galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—1.5 billion years earlier in cosmic history than astronomers had expected to find such a galaxy based on previous studies.

Early disk galaxy puts formation models in a spin

ALMA explores a Cosmic Jellyfish

October 1, 2019

One of the closest jellyfish galaxies to us, the Norma cluster galaxy ESO 137-001, was recently fully mapped using ALMA and other telescopes.

ALMA explores a Cosmic Jellyfish