Seven primitive galaxies at the dawn of time
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 - 15:00
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers have uncovered a previously unseen population of seven primitive galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago, when the universe was less than 3 percent of its present age. The deepest images to date from Hubble yield the first statistically robust sample of galaxies that tells how abundant they were close to the era when galaxies first formed.