LONDON: Astronomers have discovered 26 distant galaxies during 27 hours of scanning as a new instrument named as Very Large Telescope (VLT) has given the most detailed 3-D view of the deep Universe.
MUSE, for Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer, captures high-resolution images of deep space, and breaks the light observed from distant objects down into its component colors in order to study the composition, distance and movement of galaxies.
The 22-million euro ($25 million) instrument, which took 10 years to design and build, started operating last year as part of the European Southern Observatory’s VLT array based in Chile’s Atacama desert.
Its first results have “given astronomers the best ever three-dimensional view of the deep Universe,” an ESO statement said.
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