A Galaxy In the Making (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

A Galaxy In the Making

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Using the Cosmic Web Imager at Palomar Observatory to study a system with two quasars 10 billion light years away, a team of astronomers led by Caltech has unveiled a giant swirling disk of gas -- a protogalaxy, or galaxy in the making -- being fed cool gas by a filament of the cosmic web.

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Chris Martin/PCWI/Caltech

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