FIRST discovery of dozens of new giant radio galaxies (phys.org)

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Astronomers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and elsewhere report the discovery of 63 new giant radio galaxies as part of the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty cm survey (FIRST). The findings are detailed in a paper published Nov. 15 on the pre-print server arXiv.

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[-] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago

So that's why they called it FIRST

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