Hubble Pinpoints Furthest Protocluster of Galaxies Ever Seen

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Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of development, making it the most distant such grouping ever observed in the early Universe.

 

Further information:

From NASA:
http://hubblesite.org/<wbr></wbr>newscenter/archive/releases/<wbr></wbr>2012/05/

From ESA:
http://spacetelescope.org/<wbr></wbr>news/heic1201/

 

Download the paper:

http://iopscience.iop.org/<wbr></wbr>0004-637X/746/1/55/
http://arxiv.org/abs/1110.0468

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