Artist impression of a firestorm of star birth deep inside core of young, growing elliptical galaxy.
Image Credit: NASA, Z. Levay, G. Bacon (STScI)
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 28, 2014. Astronomers have for the first time caught a glimpse of the earliest stages of massive galaxy construction. The building site, dubbed “Sparky,” is a dense galactic core blazing with the light of millions of newborn stars that are forming at a ferocious rate.
The discovery was made…
