Strange Star Formations in M83

NASA has released a picture today that combines images from Galaxy Evolution Explorer (an ultra violet telescope) and VLA in New Mexico (a radio telescope). This image shows that stars are forming 140,000 light years outside of the galaxy proper, an area that was thought to be too far out to support star growth. The conditions that these stars have formed are thought to be much like during the immediate time after the Big Bang when metal was not widely disbursed throughout the universe. Scientists now feel that they are getting glimpses of what the universe was like then.


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