Hubble spots 'youngest galaxy'

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BBC News

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/sci_nat_enl_1102357908/html/1.stm
I Zwicky 18 started active star formation about 13 billion years after the Big Bang

The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted what may be the youngest galaxy ever seen in the Universe.

The spring chicken may be as young as 500 million years old - so recent that complex life had already arisen on Earth by the time it started to bloom.

Called I Zwicky 18, it has provided astronomers with a rare glimpse into what the Universe's first diminutive galaxies might have looked like.

The finding is reported in the latest issue of the Astrophysical Journal.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4073791.stm

[Ironpost]

1. and the repukes wanted to kill the hubble

back early in * first misadminstration.

[BlueJazz]

2. Great picture! Although I have to admit that it's amazing that......

..all these "Galaxy things" formed in just 6,000 years. :)

[The Doctor.]

3. Wow... in astronomic terms... That's a newborn!

Wouldn't that be interesting to see a continuous production of baby galaxies occuring?

Fascinating.

[mainegreen]

4. Interesting.

I wonder how many giant dust clouds are out there waiting to be disturbed enough to start star formation and become visible galaxies?

It always bothered me to think that all the galaxies have passed thier star formation prime and were slowly winding down already. Not that I'm going to be around to see it, but I always hoped that our ancestors wouldn't have to huddle around crappy little red stars for the next 40 billion years.

Now I'm going outside to stare whistfully at the sky...