From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Wed Jul 07 2004 - 13:54:37 PDT
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From: esonews_at_eso.org<mailto:esonews_at_eso.org>
To: ljk4_at_msn.com<mailto:ljk4_at_msn.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 4:02 PM
Subject: Finland Joins ESO - Old Galaxies in the Young Universe
Dear subscribers,
Finland has become the eleventh member state of the European Southern Observatory (ESO).
The formal accession procedure was carried through as planned and following the deposit of the instruments of accession today, Finland has now officially joined ESO.
ESO warmly welcomes the new member country and its scientific community that is renowned for their expertise in many frontline areas. The related opportunities will contribute to strenghtening of pioneering research with the powerful facilities at ESO's observatories, to the benefit of Astronomy and Astrophysics as well as European science in general. ESO also looks forward to collaboration with the Finnish high-tech industry.
Read the full text of ESO Press Release 18/04 at http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2004/pr-18-04.html Current theories of the formation of galaxies are based on the hierarchical merging of smaller entities into larger and larger structures. According to this scenario, it is assumed that no massive galaxies existed in the young universe.
However, this view may now have to be revised. Using the Very Large Telescope at Paranal, a team of Italian astronomers have identified four remote galaxies, several times more massive than the Milky Way galaxy. Those galaxies must have formed when the Universe was only about 2,000 million years old.
The newly discovered objects may be members of a population of old massive galaxies undetected until now. The existence of such systems shows that the build-up of massive elliptical galaxies was much faster in the early Universe than expected from current theory.
Read the full text of ESO Press Release 17/04 and see the photos at http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2004/pr-17-04.html Kind regards,
The ESO EPR Dept.
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