A new survey has found 22 of the earliest galaxies to form in the universe, confirming the age of one at just 787 million years after the theoretical Big Bang. These and other galaxies from the universe's childhood could help shed light on the conditions... ...full story at digg
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'Primordial' Gas Ring Gives Birth to Baby Galaxies » digg In a cosmic case of delayed development, dwarf galaxies have been found growing in a ring of gas that seems to be left over from the early universe. Strangely, the new galaxies appear to lack dark matter, suggesting a fraction of the universe's first... |
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The Universe 800 Million Years After the Big Bang [3D Video] » digg Astronomers have completed conducting the broadest survey to date of galaxies from about 800 million years after the Big Bang. They found 22 early galaxies and confirmed the age of one by its characteristic hydrogen signature at 787 million years... |
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The Universe 800 Billion Years After the Big Bang [3D Video] » digg Astronomers have completed conducting the broadest survey to date of galaxies from about 800 million years after the Big Bang. They found 22 early galaxies and confirmed the age of one by its characteristic hydrogen signature at 787 million years... |
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Galaxies Twice As Bright As Previously Thought » slashdot Astronomers led by Simon Driver of Scotland's University of St. Andrews have discovered that interstellar dust shades us from as much as 50% of the light emitted by stars and galaxies. The scientists compared the number of galaxies we could see "edge-on"... |
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Beautiful But Mysterious Galaxies Litter the Sky » digg This group of three galaxies together are called Arp 274; Halton Arp cataloged quite a few oddly shaped galaxies, suspecting that they were more interesting than you might suppose at first glance. He was right; almost all the galaxies in his catalogue are... |
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