ancient galaxy around 10 times the size of the Milky Way

A massive 'missing link' ancient galaxy around 10 times the size of the Milky Way has been discovered. Capturing the creation of this type of large, short-lived star body is extremely rare and will help explain how giant elliptical galaxies developed quickly in the early universe, and why they stopped producing stars soon after. The image shows a close-up of the colliding galaxies in red and green. The red data represents dust-enshrouded regions of star formation, the green data show gas in the merging galaxies and the blue spots are visible-light observations of galaxies located much closer to us.

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