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Telescopes reveal 3-D views of more than one hundred remote galaxies.

The Hubble Space Telescope can scope out the structure of faraway galaxies, while the European Southern Observatory’s VLT can use a spectrograph to reveal the motions of galactic gases. The combined 3-D view of ancient galaxies halfway across the known universe allows astronomers to trace mass and orbits relatively accurately.

“This unique combination of Hubble and the VLT allows us to model distant galaxies almost as nicely as we can close ones,” said Francois Hammer, an astronomer with the Paris Observatory in Meudon, France. [...]

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