“[A]stronomers have spotted a protogalactic disk — a giant whirling cloud of gas that gives birth to a galaxy — and the discovery could reveal clues about how galaxies form. Galaxies are strung together in filaments separated by immense voids. These filaments are connected in a gargantuan tangle known as the cosmic web.
In the future, [Christopher Martin, an astrophysicist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena,] and his colleagues plan to find more protogalactic disks and study them with a larger telescope and better instruments.
“We are about to commission the perfect instrument for this — the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, which will be mounted at the Nasmyth focus of the W. M. Keck Observatory Keck II telescope [in Hawaii],” Martin said. “We plan to start observing at the beginning of 2016 with the Keck Cosmic Web Imager.””
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