Small young galaxy with massive number of stars discovered
May 8th, 2008 by RedPepper
A recently discovered type of young galaxy has astronomers echoing David Bowman’s legendary last words in the Clarke’s novel 2001: A Space Odyssey: “My God, it’s full of stars“.
While these galaxies are small enough to fit within the central hub of our own Milky Way Galaxy, they each contain as many stars as bigger, older galaxies.
The light we see from the densely packed galaxies dates to a time when the universe was relatively young, less than three billion years old.
Previously observed tiny galaxies from this time period had correspondingly small numbers of stars.
Source: National Geographic