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Astronomers find Milky Way look-alike galaxy 12 billion light-years away – The Hindu BusinessLine
It is likely to evolve into an elliptical galaxy, rather than a spiral
Astronomers at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics have found a look-alike of the Milky Way 12 billion light-years away with the help of the Atacama Large Millimetre/sub-millimetre Array (ALMA).
The galaxy is so far away its light has taken more than 12 billion years to reach us, the institute said in an official press release.
This makes it an even more fascinating discovery as according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) our universe is around 13 billion years,…
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