April 30, 2008 - National Geographic
A newly discovered type of young galaxy has astronomers echoing David Bowman's famous last words in the novel 2001: A Space Odyssey: "My God, it's full of stars."
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Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the W.M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, the team was able to measure the sizes of the distant, compact galaxies.
Further observations with the Gemini South Telescope Near-Infrared Spectrograph in Chile showed that even though the galaxies were young, they had already finished the phase of intense star formation.
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