The team searched for distant galaxies emitting Lyman - alpha radiation, using 16 different narrow and medium band filters over the COSMOS field, which is one of the most widely studied regions of sky outside our Milky Way, located in the direction of the constellation of Sextans. (sciencedaily.com)
«We've confirmed this in simulations, and many others have studied the region as well.» (sciencedaily.com)
«The most exciting thing we now see in the new observations is the head of the cloud coming back towards us at more than 10 million km / h along the orbit — about 1 % of the speed of light,» adds Reinhard Genzel, leader of the research group that has been studied this region for nearly twenty years. (sciencedaily.com)