UMass Amherst astronomers' camera leads to discovery of early galaxies
Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 08:01
in Astronomy & Space
An international team of astronomers including Grant Wilson and Min Yun at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has detected one of the earliest "protoclusters" of galaxies ever identified, located about 12.5 billion light years from Earth. Wilson and Yun are part of a group led by Peter Capak of the California Institute of Technology. Their findings appear in the current issue of Nature.