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Astronomers Find Vast Reservoirs of Hydrogen around Early Galaxies


Astronomers with the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) have detected enormous hydrogen halos, called Lyman-alpha nebulae, around more than 30,000 galaxies 10 billion to 12 billion years ago.

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