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A pair of galaxies from first billion years of the universe.



Optical, infrared and millimetre-wavelength image of SPT0311−58 The field around SPT0311−58 is shown, as seen with ALMA and HST at 1.3 mm (ALMA band 6; red), 1,300 nm (combined HST/WFC3 F125W and F160W filters; green) and 700 nm (combined HST/ACS F606W and F775W filters; blue). For emission from z = 6.9, no emission should be visible in the ACS filters owing to the opacity of the neutral intergalactic medium, whereas the other filters correspond to rest-frame 160 nm and 160 μm.


A composite image showing ALMA data (red) of the two galaxies of SPT0311-58. These galaxies are shown over a background from the Hubble Space Telescope (blue and green). The ALMA data show the two galaxies’ dusty glow. The image of the galaxy on the right is distorted by gravitational lensing. The nearer foreground lensing galaxy is the green object between the two galaxies imaged by ALMA.

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