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Old January 26th 07, 03:26 PM posted to sci.astro.amateur
Greg Crinklaw
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Default Looking into the past with a telescope

cantseeboo wrote:

The formation of the first galaxies. - Canopus56


1) Do the astronomers have an idea of where to look, or, are they just
going to perform random scanning of the sky?


They surround us. But it would be a good idea to look somewhere there
is little between us and those great distances. A window, of sorts,
presumably away from Milky Way and large intervening clusters of galaxies.

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