Mauro Giavalisco, University of Massachusetts at Amherst (IMAGE)

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Mauro Giavalisco, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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To identify this distant galaxy from among myriads of other, closer faint galaxies that obscure deep images of the sky, they used a technique called the "Lyman-break selection" developed by Giavalisco and others in the 1990s.

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UMass AMherst

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