Now Alexander Kashlinsky of the Goddard Space Flight Center may have peered all the way to the most remote objects in the universe: the primordial stars that first lit up a pitch - black cosmos 200 million years after the Big Bang. (discovermagazine.com)
Unlike the famous Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which mapped only part of the sky, the new 2MASS Redshift Survey covers 95 % of surrounding space, skipping over only the region near the plane of our own galaxy, where the Milky Way's stars and dust block the view of remote objects. (sciencemag.org)
The powerful gravity of clusters of galaxies warps space itself, amplifying and bending light from more remote objects in a process called gravitational lensing. (sciencemag.org)