Galaxies Far, Far Away

Thursday, February 10, 2011

Astronomers make surprising find. UMass Amherst astronomers Grant Wilson and Min Yun are part of an international team that has detected one of the earliest "protoclusters" of galaxies ever identified, located about 12.5 billion light years from Earth. Their findings, made possible by instrumentation produced on campus, appear in the February 10, 2011 issue of Nature.