The best map so far of these distant dusty galaxies was made using the European Southern Observatoryoperated Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope (APEX).
What does APEX stand for?
APEX stands for Atacama Pathfinder Experiment
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Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile, a collaboration involving the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Germany, the Onsala Space Observatory in Sweden, and the European Southern Observatory in Germany, contributed to the findings.
The discovery was made with the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment telescope (APEX), situated on the 5000-m-high Chajnantor plateau in the Chilean Andes.