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Interferometer Spots Galaxy at 40M Lightyears

Posted by michael on from the i-spy dept.

techno-vampire writes "JPL announces that a pair of telescopes used as an optical interferometer have detected a galaxy 40 million light years away, smashing the previous record of 3,000 light years. This feat, using infrared, has given us a far more detailed look into the center of a galaxy, and opened up a whole new field of research."

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  1. bull by Tuxinatorium · · Score: 0, Troll

    the previous record was definitely not 3,000 light years. There are very few galaxies that close, even. Backyard telescopes can see ones farther away than that.

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