New powers of observation (IMAGE)

University of Tokyo

New powers of observation

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The WINERED instrument allows observations of distant quasars from when the universe was only 2.4 billion years old. Previous studies with visible light were limited to astronomical bodies 4 billion years old. The colored lines represent three different possible models for the chemical evolution of the universe.

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© 2020 Sameshima et al.

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