Thursday, December 22, 2011

Hubble offers glimpse of the dawn of time



[ via Mail Online ]

Scientists still have only seen glimpses of the 'cosmic dawn', when stars were forming in the calm, dark cosmos.

A researcher at the University of Tokyo has found the most vigorous star-forming galaxy yet seen from the cold, dark period just after the Big Bang - a large mass of gas forming stars at a rate of around a hundred suns per year
An international team lead by Masami Ouchi of the University of Tokyo has found the most vigorous star-forming galaxy yet seen from the period - a huge mass of gas forming stars at a rate of around a hundred suns per year.



It's one of the most distant galaxies ever seen by mankind - and it's also unique. Although nine galaxies have been detected from the period just after Big Bang, the 750-million-year-old GN-108036 was forming stars far faster than the others, when most of the universe was still cold and dark. 

Read details at Mail Online

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