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 探花直播central object is a very distant galaxy, labelled BDF 3299.  探花直播bright red cloud just to the lower left is the ALMA detection of a vast cloud of material that is in the process of assembling the very young galaxy

Astronomers witness assembly of galaxies in the early Universe for the first time

22 Jul 2015

An international team of astronomers led by the 探花直播 of Cambridge have detected the most distant clouds of star-forming gas yet found in normal...

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Polarisation of the Cosmic Microwave Background

Planck reveals first stars were born late

05 Feb 2015

New maps from the Planck satellite uncover the 鈥榩olarised鈥 light from the early Universe across the entire sky, revealing that the first stars formed...

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Planck captures portrait of the young Universe, revealing earliest light

21 Mar 2013

Satellite鈥檚 first all-sky image is the most detailed picture to date of the early Universe, giving us a better understanding of its birth.

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Into Space

Cambridge research to explore the origins of the universe

15 May 2009

Cambridge 探花直播 researchers are casting their gaze back to the start of the universe following the launch last week of two of the most expensive...

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big bang

Unlocking the secrets of the universe

01 Apr 2008

Cosmic defects and adolescent galaxies 鈥 two research projects in Cambridge are bringing us closer to understanding the cosmos.

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Lucid in the sky

26 Sep 2007

A New Cambridge 探花直播 star catalogue is the 鈥渕ost accurate ever鈥.

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