Gravitational lensing, a feature of Einsteins theory of General Relativity, offers a unique short cut to viewing the earliest light in the universe while scientists wait for the Next Generation Space Telescope (NGST), a 6.5 meter telescope to be launched in 2009. Exploiting gravitational lensing, an international team of astrophysicists has detected a very small, faint stellar system in the process of its formation during the first half billion years or so of the universes existence.
http://www.cosmiverse.com/space10050102.html
Thursday, October 4, 2001
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