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Cosmic Eye Telescope Used to Spot Distant Galaxy
from the Telegraph (UK)
Scientists have used a 'cosmic eye' to "look back in time" and glimpse a galaxy formation similar to the Milky Way which could give clues to the formation of the Universe. Using a technique that employs gravity from a galaxy in the foreground as an enormous zoom lens, researchers were able to see into the distant Universe.
The cosmic eye allowed scientists to observe a young star-forming galaxy, which lies about 11 billion light years from Earth, as it appeared just two billion years after the Big Bang.
Teams from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in the US and Durham and Cardiff Universities in the UK believe their findings show for the first time how the galaxy might evolve to become a spiral system like the Milky Way.
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