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Early disk galaxy puts formation models in a spin

May 21, 2020

Published today in Nature, an international team of researchers has observed a massive, rotating disk galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—1.5 billion years earlier in cosmic history than astronomers had expected to find such a galaxy based on previous studies.

Early disk galaxy puts formation models in a spin

4MOST introduced to the scientific community

March 7, 2019

4MOST will be the largest spectroscopic survey facility of its kind in the Southern hemisphere and address today’s most pressing astronomical questions in the fields of Galactic archaeology, high-energy astrophysics, galaxy evolution and cosmology.

4MOST introduced to the scientific community