NASA Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy

littlesparkvt (2707383) writes "Astronomers have uncovered for the first time the earliest stages of a massive galaxy forming in the young Universe. The discovery was made possible through combining observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, ESA's Herschel Space Observatory, and the W.M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii. The growing galaxy core is blazing with the light of millions of newborn stars that are forming at a ferocious rate. The paper appears in the journal Nature on 27 August." (Here's the NASA press release.)

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Re:Construction? So you are telling me there is a

[Tablizer]

No, that's a "microscope", son.

Better article, paper and pictures

[xded]

Here's a better article from ESA which also links to the arXiv copy of the paper and an actual image of the galaxy (full size JPEG). (The image at the beginning of TFA is just an illustration, by the way.)

How fast do stars form?

[canadiannomad]

The growing galaxy core is blazing with the light of millions of newborn stars that are forming at a ferocious rate.

In TFA it states that

GOODS-N-774 is producing 300 stars per year. “By comparison, the Milky Way produces thirty times fewer than this — roughly ten stars per year,”

I'm sure I could find it somewhere, or it is really an unanswerable question, but how fast do stars themselves generally form?