A team of UK, French and German astronomers have discovered that the majority of the most distant galaxies so far identified are very young, undergoing their first extremely vigorous bursts of star formation. This discovery allows the astronomers to study the first important stages in the formation of the kind of galaxies we see in the Universe today. One of the scientists involved in the study, Dr. Malcolm Bremer of the University of Bristol, presented the team’s findings at the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting in Preston/UK.
Caught In The Act: Forming Galaxies Captured In The Young Universe