MMT Used to Make Historic Measurement
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PrintThe Multiple Mirror Telescope (MMT) is used to make the first measurement of possible proto-galaxy-sized gas clouds seen at cosmological distances. The international team of scientists, which included Fred Chaffee, a Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory researcher, used an observation technique employing a natural gravitational lens in space.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1984. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985, p. 409.
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February, 1984