UCLA researchers are examining the origins of the universe’s oldest galaxies through a joint project with NASA. The Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space uses NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to collect data about elements in faraway galaxies, said Tommaso Treu, principal investigator of the project and a physics and astronomy professor at UCLA. Read more...

Photo: UCLA researchers in the GLASS project used the Hubble telescope to capture the light spectrum of distant galaxies, and researchers used this data to find elements present in the first galaxies created right after the Big Bang. (NASA)