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Flying across Galaxy Clusters with Google Earth: Deep Color Images from SDSS

Color images of distant, faint galaxies interesting to astronomers because the color enables them to estimate the redshift, a key astrophysical parameter in understanding how galaxies are organized in the Universe.  Recently, Jiangang Hao and Jim Annis of Fermilab co-added … Continue reading

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