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Thanks to the work of nearly 100 astronomers from all over the world, known collectively as All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey (AEGIS), computer users can view galaxies and star formations that date back nine billion years.

Five AEGIS teams compiled galactic images that can now be viewed on Google Sky. Marc Davis of the University of California, Berkeley and Sandra Faber of the University of California, Santa Cruz led one of these teams, called Deep Extragalactic Evolutionary Probe (DEEP2) Redshift Survey.

Jeffrey Newman, assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Pittsburgh, was Davis’s “right-hand man” on the DEEP2 Redshift Survey team.

Researchers examined a strip of sky, namely the Extended...

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