UMass Amherst Astronomers, Partnering With Mexican Institute

Friday, June 17, 2011

AMHERST, Mass. - Astronomers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Mexico's Instituto Nacional de Astrofisica, Optica y Electronica announced today that a giant new millimeter-wave radio telescope, one of the largest in the world designed to probe the history of star formation in the Universe, has collected its first light spectrum from a distant galaxy.