Astronomers Find Enormous Hole in the Universe [pdf]

Aussie helps find 14 new galaxies 

AN Australian scientist is part of an international team of astronomers which has found 14 new galaxies. The discovery, outlined in Astrophysical Journal, represents a major breakthrough in the field of ... distant galaxy hunting and is like finding 14 needles in a haystack. The team was led by Nicolas Bouche from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and included astronomer Dr Michael Murphy, from Melbourne's Swinburne University of Technology. Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in northern Chile, the astronomers relied on quasars, which are like cosmic beacons, to find the galaxies. “We infer the galaxies' existence from the specific pattern of shadows they imprint onto the quasars' spectrum,” said Dr Murphy. The team searched the patches of sky around the quasars for the foreground galaxies whose light comes from the time the universe was only about six billion years old, less than half its current age. Working at the Uni   [More...] [Less...]

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Welcome to the Science and Technology Facilities Council Formed by Royal Charter in 2007, the Science and Technology Facilities Council is one of Europe's largest multidisciplinary research organisations ... supporting scientists and engineers world-wide. The Council operates world-class , large scale research facilities and provides strategic advice to the UK government on their development. It also manages international research projects in support of a broad cross-section of the UK research community . The Council also direc t s , coordinat es and fund s research, education and training. As users of our web site, we'd like to know more about what your needs and requirements are - and we need your help to do that. Please take a couple of moments to complete our online survey | and let us know what you think. Fifty students from the Oxford School on Neutron Scattering visited the ISIS Second Target Station at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in September as part of their training in using n   [More...] [Less...]

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