Spitzer and Hubble, the gifts that just keeps giving!

[Tank]

Astronomers Discover Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time

ScienceDaily (Dec. 21, 2011) — Astronomers, including the University of California, Riverside's Bahram Mobasher and his graduate student Hooshang Nayyeri, have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a shockingly high rate. The researchers made the discovery using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. The blob-shaped galaxy, called GN-108036, is the brightest galaxy found to date at such great distances...

..."The high rate of star formation found for GN-108036 implies that it was rapidly building up its mass some 750 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only about five percent of its present age," said Mobasher, a professor of physics and astronomy. "This was therefore a likely ancestor of massive and evolved galaxies seen today."...

I can't get enough of this sort of thing 

[Sandra Craft]

Astronomers Discover Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time

ScienceDaily (Dec. 21, 2011) — Astronomers, including the University of California, Riverside's Bahram Mobasher and his graduate student Hooshang Nayyeri, have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a shockingly high rate. The researchers made the discovery using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. The blob-shaped galaxy, called GN-108036, is the brightest galaxy found to date at such great distances...

..."The high rate of star formation found for GN-108036 implies that it was rapidly building up its mass some 750 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only about five percent of its present age," said Mobasher, a professor of physics and astronomy. "This was therefore a likely ancestor of massive and evolved galaxies seen today."...

I can't get enough of this sort of thing 

I always imagine astronomers must live very satisfying lives.  At least while they're at work.

[Tank]

Astronomers Discover Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time

ScienceDaily (Dec. 21, 2011) — Astronomers, including the University of California, Riverside's Bahram Mobasher and his graduate student Hooshang Nayyeri, have discovered that one of the most distant galaxies known is churning out stars at a shockingly high rate. The researchers made the discovery using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. The blob-shaped galaxy, called GN-108036, is the brightest galaxy found to date at such great distances...

..."The high rate of star formation found for GN-108036 implies that it was rapidly building up its mass some 750 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was only about five percent of its present age," said Mobasher, a professor of physics and astronomy. "This was therefore a likely ancestor of massive and evolved galaxies seen today."...

I can't get enough of this sort of thing 

I always imagine astronomers must live very satisfying lives.  At least while they're at work.

Yes. I can't imagine an astronomer doing the job for the money or the hours, unless they were a vampire?

[Sandra Craft]

Yes. I can't imagine an astronomer doing the job for the money or the hours, unless they were a vampire?

Hush!  Somebody is going to take that idea and run with it and I don't know if I can endure any more of the vampire craze!