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13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy
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RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy
These observations are difficult.  A recent technique is to find a massive galaxy directly between us and a potential object VERY far away.  If the geometry is just right, the intermediate galaxy will amplify and magnify the distant object enough for us to study it.  The technique can magnify by a factor of 10X to 20X.  

Statistics indicate the number of times this technique can be used will be small, unfortunately.  If we want to look at more galaxies like this we will need a bigger boat telescope.
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13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by Minimalist - September 7, 2015 at 12:23 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by pocaracas - September 7, 2015 at 12:45 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by Alex K - September 7, 2015 at 12:48 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by Ben Davis - September 8, 2015 at 8:11 am
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by Anomalocaris - September 8, 2015 at 8:23 am
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by AFTT47 - September 8, 2015 at 12:01 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by Anomalocaris - September 8, 2015 at 11:17 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by Ben Davis - September 9, 2015 at 8:49 am
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by Longhorn - September 7, 2015 at 12:54 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by Minimalist - September 7, 2015 at 1:58 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by brian1570 - September 7, 2015 at 2:46 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by vorlon13 - September 7, 2015 at 1:02 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by robvalue - September 7, 2015 at 1:22 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by Rhondazvous - September 11, 2015 at 1:34 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by vorlon13 - September 7, 2015 at 1:25 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by Longhorn - September 7, 2015 at 2:13 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by Thumpalumpacus - September 8, 2015 at 11:45 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by Alex K - September 7, 2015 at 2:25 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by ignoramus - September 8, 2015 at 5:53 am
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by TheRocketSurgeon - September 8, 2015 at 11:04 am
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by robvalue - September 8, 2015 at 8:29 am
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by LastPoet - September 8, 2015 at 12:29 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by vorlon13 - September 8, 2015 at 11:26 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by Anomalocaris - September 9, 2015 at 9:31 am
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by Rhondazvous - September 11, 2015 at 2:52 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by rado84 - September 11, 2015 at 3:21 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by vorlon13 - September 11, 2015 at 3:54 pm
RE: 13.2 Billion Year Old Galaxy - by vorlon13 - September 11, 2015 at 3:55 pm

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