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News | 08.05.2009

Astronomers Find Hyperactive Galaxies in the Early Universe

The fast-moving stars shed new light on how these distant galaxies, which are a fraction the size of our Milky Way, may have evolved into the full-grown galaxies seen around us today. The results will be published in the August 6, 2009 issue of the journal Nature, with a companion paper in the Astrophysical Journal...cont'd.

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