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Subaru Telescope Discovers A Rosetta Stone Cluster of Galaxies

An international team of researchers led by Ichi Tanaka from the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan has discovered an aggregate of galaxies undergoing a burst of star formation that may hold the key to understanding how galaxies formed in the early universe. The aggregate is located toward the Constellation Vulpecula and is 11 billion light years away, 2.7 billion years after the birth of the universe, when it was still in its infancy.
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Position (2000): RA 21 7.3, Dec +23 29.8


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