Yet another really cool Astronomy discovery, this one announced back on March 23rd…
Here’s a short summary of the news from Science Daily…
Astronomers have directly observed a pair of Milky Way-like galaxies seen when the universe was only eight percent of its current age. These progenitors of today’s giant spiral galaxies are surrounded by ‘super halos’ of hydrogen gas that extend many tens-of-thousands of light-years beyond their dusty, star-filled disks.
Here’s an artist’s rendition of the galaxies…
And finally, here’s a short video talking about it…
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