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Space & Cosmos

New cosmic distance catalogue may shed light on mysteries of the universe’s formation

The William Herschel Telescope, La Palma, Spain. Courtesy of the PAUS team. A new catalog was published today that provides information on millions of distant galaxies, determining their distances with unprecedented precision, across fields and depths never before explored. The catalogue is the product of the Accelerated Astrophysics Survey (PAUS), an international collaboration project led by the Institute for Space…