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Shockingly young galaxy surprises scientists with its impressive bulge – Space.com
Peering into the early universe, astronomers uncovered a surprise: a young galaxy that looks a lot like our home, the Milky Way
.
The newfound galaxy is called SPT0418-47 and, given its great distance from Earth
, astronomers see the galaxy as it was when the universe was just 1.4 billion years old roughly 12 billion years before today.
The discovery held a big surprise for the researchers. Stars were forming quickly, as expected, since there was abundant gas available when the universe was …
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