Thursday, December 22, 2011

Astronomers Discover Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time

ScienceDaily -- Astronomers, including the University of California, Riverside's Bahram Mobasher and his graduate student Hooshang Nayyeri, have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a shockingly high rate. The researchers made the discovery using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. The blob-shaped galaxy, called GN-108036, is the brightest galaxy found to date at such great distances.

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First Ever Direct Measurement of Earth's Rotation
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