Pew, pew! Scientists detect record-breaking 'megamaser' 5 billion light-years away.

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Meghan is a senior writer at Space.com and has more than five years' experience as a science journalist based in New York City. She joined Space.com in July 2018, with previous writing published in outlets including Newsweek and Audubon. Meghan earned an MA in science journalism from New York University and a BA in classics from Georgetown University, and in her free time she enjoys reading and visiting museums. Follow her on Twitter at @meghanbartels.

The detection comes courtesy of the MeerKAT array, a collection of 64 receptors spread across a patch of South Africa. The array had started a new project looking for hydrogen signals in the distant, targeting what one of the researchers called a"cosmic vuvuzela," a horn stretching out so far that it will allow scientists to see the universe as it looked when it was less than 5 billion years old.

The Laduma project will entail more than 3,000 hours of observing time — but scientists didn't have to wait nearly that long to make discoveries.

Nkalakatha emanates from a galaxy with a long, radio-bright tail on one side, according to the statement, and its light is about 5 billion years old.

 

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great picture of SpaceX

So basically it's a galaxy?

What's that. Ya'll just be making up words

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