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We study these celestial objects,\u00ab she explains.<\/p>\n<p>She is particularly interested in what scientists call the \u2018Lyman Alpha emission line galaxies\u2019, named after the part of the electro-magnetic spectrum in which they can be seen. <\/p>\n<h2>New data coming<\/h2>\n<p>At present she is looking at the Southern Hemisphere night sky.<\/p>\n<p>Looking is actually just a metaphor for what she does: Based on a system of numbered co-ordinates, she observes objects in the form of images and spectra from the Paranal Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope, constructed with 8.2 metre mirrors on the top of Paranal mountain in Chile.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbNext month we will have the data from the other telescope called Vista. 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We study these celestial objects,\u00ab she explains.<\/p>\n<p>She is particularly interested in what scientists call the \u2018Lyman Alpha emission line galaxies\u2019, named after the part of the electro-magnetic spectrum in which they can be seen. <\/p>\n<h2>New data coming<\/h2>\n<p>At present she is looking at the Southern Hemisphere night sky.<\/p>\n<p>Looking is actually just a metaphor for what she does: Based on a system of numbered co-ordinates, she observes objects in the form of images and spectra from the Paranal Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope, constructed with 8.2 metre mirrors on the top of Paranal mountain in Chile.<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbNext month we will have the data from the other telescope called Vista. This is very important for me and my thesis!\u00ab she says with excitement.<\/p>\n<p>Read article, <a href=\"node\/10025\">Scientists gravitate towards Dark<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<h2>No other place<\/h2>\n<p>When away from her screens at the office, Ia is an avid walker. Both in Denmark, and when she is home visiting friends and family in Georgia: She recently hiked 60 kilometres in one day with her friends. Spending 20 hours, they climbed up to the lake Jazis Tba at 2500 metres altitude and the mountain Mephis Tshkaro at 2850 metres. <\/p>\n<p>A long, long walk under the canopy of stars, but no big deal for Ia. She has done the trip three times already.<\/p>\n<p>Back from the Caucasus, Ia doesn\u2019t want to be anywhere else, doing anything else, than what she is doing, right now, at DARK in Copenhagen. She calls it the \u00bbbest institution of Cosmology in the world.\u00ab<\/p>\n<p>\u00bbDoing my PhD here, is the best thing that has happened to me in my life. 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