sábado, 21 de mayo de 2011

[Image] Gigantic Galaxy String Defies Age of Universe






String-of-galaxies
Wide-field telescope observations of the remote early Universe, looking back to a time when it was a fifth of its present age (redshift = 2.38), have revealed an enormous string of galaxies about 300 million light-years long. This new structure defies current models of how the Universe evolved, which can't explain how a string this big could have formed so early.

Image credit: NASA/Hubble




Provided by The Daily Galaxy