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This galaxy is so large, so fully-formed, astronomers say it shouldn't exist at all. It's called a "grand-design" spiral galaxy, and unlike most galaxies of its kind, this one is old.

Sensationalism... tasty.

>> No.5044078

>>5044072
What's so sensationalised about that?

It's right.

>> No.5044124

those are water bears

i think you aare referring to http://io9.com/5927315/hubble-has-spotted-an-ancient-galaxy-that-shouldnt-exist

the data from the paper apparently does come from hubbles new wide field camera 3 so its a pretty cool finding

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5044137

the wcf3 was able to image the ultra deep field up to z~8

by comparison, a z~1 star is located http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UDF_423 almost 10billion light years away

we're looking at about z~2