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25 March 2019

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[ 24 March 2019 ] Visualizing the chaos near the Milky Way’s central black hole News
[ 21 March 2019 ] Rumors of a quasar’s death may have been premature News
[ 20 March 2019 ] Asteroid Bennu surprises with rocky surface and activity News
[ 19 March 2019 ] Ultima Thule answers – and raises – questions about early solar system News
[ 18 March 2019 ] Astronomers find 83 quasars already shining in early universe News

NASA’s ‘Great Observatories’ team up to find magnified image of distant galaxy

17 January 2018 Astronomy Now

An intensive survey deep into the universe by NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has yielded the proverbial needle-in-a-haystack: the farthest galaxy yet seen in an image that has been stretched and amplified by a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.