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Article: CELESTIAL FIND ASTRONOMERS OBSERVE GALAXY IN EMBRYONIC STAGE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- January 6, 1987
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PASADENA, Calif. - For the first time, a galaxy has been
observed in its embryonic stage, astronomers reported here
yesterday. The galaxy, as observed, is so young that stars are just
beginning to form within it, they said.
The "proto-galaxy" is expected to develop, over the course of
billions of years, into a swirling island universe of billions of
stars, much like the Milky Way galaxy of which Earth is a part.
The galaxy was detected by a team of six astronomers from the
University of California at Berkeley, the Harvard-Smithsonian
Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge and the University of Arizona.
The newly found galaxy, 12 billion light years from Earth, is