This galaxy Generate Thousand Stars in Year 3

HFLS3 (Photo: ABC)

CALIFORNIA - Astronomers claim to have discovered the oldest starburst galaxies in the universe (universe). This galaxy is capable of producing up to 3 thousand stars that resemble the Sun in one year.

Reported by ABC, Thursday (18/04/2013), this galaxy has all the ingredients it uses to produce a number of remarkable. This galaxy began to produce new stars from the last 880 million years after the Big Bang event.

This galaxy codenamed HFLS3, which is 12.8 billion light years. With the distance, making it the earliest starburst galaxies ever observed.

According to Dominik Riechers of the California Institute of Technology, HFLS3 could produce an average of more than 2,000-fold than the Milky Way. Riechers and his team search for starburst galaxies by examining the survey data collected by the space telescope, Herschel Space Observatory.

"We use the help of infrared technology, in which the starburst galaxies that are in the light of the position," said Riechers. According to him, this galaxy produces lots of ultraviolet light, but the surrounding neighborhood is full of dust and gas.

Dust, gas and ultraviolet light, which in turn is able to form stars. Ultraviolet radiation is absorbed by the gas molecules and dust and re-emitted as infrared captured by Herschel. (FMH)
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