December 21, 2011
Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU)
An international team of astronomers led by Masami Ouchi, an associate professor from ICRR (Institute for Cosmic Ray Research of University of Tokyo) and a joint appointment researcher at IPMU, has discovered a vigorous, star-forming galaxy that existed about 750 million years after the Big Bang. This galaxy, named GN-108036, was a remarkable source of star formation at the so-called "cosmic dawn", a very early time in cosmic history; it was generating an exceptionally large amount of stars in the calm, dark cosmos.
Full Story: Subaru Telescope/National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ)
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