South Pole Telescope

South Pole Telescope
New findings about an extraordinary galaxy cluster discovered by the National Science Foundation’s 10-meter South Pole Telescope. (Image credit: Daniel Luong-Van)

New findings about an extraordinary galaxy cluster discovered by the National Science Foundation’s 10-meter South Pole Telescope (pictured here), and later followed-up by eight other world-class observatories, appear in the Aug. 16 issue of the journal Nature.

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