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Exactly How Australian Scientists Can Study The Oldest Spiral Galaxy Is Almost As Cool As The Galaxy Itself
What you’re looking at here is the 11 billion year old spiral galaxy A1689B11. It sits behind a massive galaxy cluster that acts like a lens for the light coming from A1689B11 – and this makes two highly magnified images. So, of course, Australian scientists are studying these images for clues about exactly how galaxies…