A team of astronomers from Europe was fortunate enough to witness a possible formation of a new galaxy.  Roberto Maiolino led the team of astronomers who have been doing their space observation in Southern Europe. The team was from the Cavendish Laboratory and Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge in United Kingdom. 

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According to NYC News, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array or also called as ALMA, used to spot changes in outer space, was used by Maiolino and his team. The ALMA is a highly sophisticated device that serves as an astronomical interferometer of radio telescopes. 

ALMA is made possible because of an international partnership among the USA, East Asia, Chile, Canada and Europe. It costs about $1.4 billion and is currently the most expensive of its kind in operation. The ALMA was aimed at galaxies that are younger than our very own Milky Way, which was formed 800 million years after the big bang happened. 

There were gas clouds that have been detected which could possibly form stars or a new galaxy. These gas clouds will be further observed to fully understand how galaxies were formed. It would be interesting to see how the very first galaxies cleared away hydrogen gas fogs, a period which has been called as "reionization." Until now, the observations made here in planet Earth were simply described as "faint blobs." This was according to a report made by the Echo Examiner. 

Maiolino and his team mainly had their observations by using the ALMA which was at the European Southern Observatory or ESO. His team at ESO was dumbfounded to find that the faint glows they originally observed will become either a new star or a new galaxy. However, most of their observations were indicating that these faint glows are more likely to become a new galactic formation.

According to Slash Gear, the glows are possibly ionized carbon that came out from a cloud of gas. The team of astronomers also wanted to find out more on the interaction between a group of stars of a younger generation and the cold clumps that could possibly become a galaxy. This study is significant to detect how glowing carbons one billion years after the big bang could became a host of planets.

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