The Week in Review – 4/11/2009

Galaxies Near and Far

This past week found me back at Kitt Peak. I spent Tuesday through Thursday supporting observing programs at the Mayall 4-meter telescope. Astronomers were using the observatory’s newest instrument, the wide-field infrared imager called NEWFIRM, to look for the most distant galaxies in the universe. On Friday, I moved over to the WIYN 3.5-meter telescope to support a program collecting infrared images of dark matter galaxies that are close to our galaxy.

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