Tag: monster galaxies

Artistic impression of the monster galaxy COSMOS-AzTEC-1. This galaxy is located 12.4 billion light-years away and is forming stars 1,000 times more rapidly than our Milky Way galaxy. ALMA observations revealed dense gas concentrations in the disk, and intense star formation in those concentrations. Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan

New Study Reveals Some Of Ancient Secrets Of ‘Monster’ Star-Forming Galaxies

MessageToEagle.com | August 30, 2018

MessageToEagle.com – A “monster galaxy” 12.4 billion light years away has been studied by astronomers from Japan, Mexico and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, who observed the object in

VISTA is a wide-field reflecting telescope with a 4.1 metre mirror, located at the Paranal Observatory, Atacama Desert in Chile. It is operated by the European Southern Observatory and started science operations in December 2009

Astronomy

The Birth Of Monsters – VISTA Spies On Earliest Giant Galaxies

MessageToEagle.com | November 18, 2015

MessageToEagle.com – A horde of previously hidden massive galaxies that existed when the Universe was in its infancy has been discovered by astronomers using ESO’s VISTA survey telescope. By discovering