Hubble Space Telescope observations of REQUIEM target MRG-M0138 are featured as the NASA/ESA Picture of the Week. The novelty here is how gravitational lensing acts as a natural magnifying glass, allowing us to make next generation observations. In particular, this field captures a rare quiescent galaxy where without lensing Hubble just barely resolves galaxies like this. With the REQUIEM survey, we are in the process of spatially resolving the stellar populations of this target and others.
The article notes that “a slumbering giant known as MRG-M0138 which has run out of the gas required to form new stars and is located 10 billion light years away.” Stay tuned for upcoming results directly addressing the gas content of this particular galaxy!
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