Thursday 19 July 2012

First Spiral Galaxy in early universe

A team of Astronomers have spotted the earliest known spiral galaxy, dating to just three billion years after the Big Bang. It should take far longer for gravity to bring matter into thin. They first spotted Bx442 as the one and only spiral-looking object of 300 galaxies carried out by the hubble space telescope, when they were shocked to see what looked to be a spiral galaxy.

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