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April 22, 2013

Star factory in the early Universe challenges galaxy evolution theory
London UK (SPX) Apr 22, 2013
A team including Mat Page (UCL Space and Climate Physics) has discovered an extremely distant galaxy making stars more than 2000 times faster than our own Milky Way. Seen at a time when the Universe was less than a billion years old, its mere existence challenges our theories of galaxy evolution. The observations were carried out using the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory. The galaxy, known as HFLS3, appears as little more than a faint, red smudge in images from the Herschel Mult ... read more

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