'Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It’s a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year. Read more: Scientists Discover One of the Biggest Structures in the Universe
Astronomers used NASA’s Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about 740 new stars a year. By comparison, our Milky Way galaxy spawns just about one new star each year.
The galaxy is about 5.7 billion light years away in the center of a recently discovered cluster of galaxies that give off the brightest X-ray glow astronomers have seen. It is by far the biggest creation of stars that astronomers have seen for this kind of galaxy. Other types, such as colliding galaxies, can produce even more stars, astronomers said.'
Sunday 19 August 2012
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