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Keith Cooper

Galaxy cluster spied forming in early universe (photos, video)

A Hubble Space Telescope image of the Spiderweb Galaxy. Overlaid on it in blue is the location of the hot intra-cluster medium detected by ALMA.

The formation of vast clouds of hot gas during the birth of a distant galaxy cluster has been observed for the very first time by astronomers using ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, in Chile.

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