Showing posts with label Hubble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hubble. Show all posts

Thursday, September 13, 2012

Long, long ago...and far, far away...


It seems scientists have discovered a spiral-arm galaxy from long, long ago and it's far, far away...sounds like it could be a galaxy full of Jedi's and Storm-troopers!

I doubt there are any X-wing fighters swooping around the stars in this galaxy, but you never know. Apparently this galaxy formed some 10.7 billion years ago, only a short time after the "big bang" that created our Universe. Scientists find it exciting because apparently it shouldn't be possible for a galaxy that old to still look so good, all other galaxies that have been discovered around that age have disintegrated to the point that they, "look like a train-wreck".

Here's a link to the original article on io9