Pair of Exceptionally Rare Hyper-luminous Galaxies Discovered with ALMA

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Pair of Exceptionally Rare Hyper-luminous Galaxies Discovered with ALMA

Pair of Exceptionally Rare Hyper-luminous Galaxies Discovered with ALMA

Composite image of ADFS-27 galaxy pair. The background image is from ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory. The object was then detected by ESO’s Atacama Pathfinder EXperiment (APEX) telescope (middle image). ALMA (right) was able to identify two galaxies: ADFS-27N (for North) and ADFS-27S (for South). The starbursting galaxies are about 12.8 billion light-years from Earth and destined to merge into a single, massive galaxy.

Credit: NRAO/AUI/NSF, B. Saxton; ESA Herschel; ESO APEX; ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); D. Riechers

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Telescope	Herschel Space Observatory; APEX; ALMA

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