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Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Astronomers have discovered seven primitive galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago, during the Universe's infancy. The find includes a candidate galaxy that could hold the record for the most distant galaxy ever found. Scientists made the new discoveries using the Hubble Space Telescope's Hubble Ultra Deep Field project, which aims to improve our understanding of the early Universe. Astronomers are looking back at...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers announced Dec. 12 they have seen further back in time than ever before and have uncovered a previously unseen population of seven primitive galaxies that formed more than 13 billion years ago, when the universe was less than 3 percent of its present age. The deepest images to date from Hubble yield the first statistically robust sample of galaxies that tells how abundant they were...

John P. Millis, Ph.D. for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online This article is the latest installment in a new series where redOrbit’s in-house experts will answer questions submitted by you, the reader. Got a science or space question that’s stumping you? Each week we’ll select a handful of the wiliest questions you can whip up to tease the brains of our resident gurus (we call them 'geeks'). Question: We have seen numerous pictures of other galaxies and other things out...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Dust can be the bane of any good housekeeper or computer technician. However, it is an important building block for stars and planets, and astronomers need to understand how cosmic dust forms over time. This understanding is an integral step in figuring out the evolution of galaxies and the stars and planets that they’re made of. Assistant professor Steven Finkelstein, of the University of Texas at Austin, and his colleagues are...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Researchers using the Hubble Telescope have assembled a new and improved portrait of our deepest-ever view of the Universe. The eXtreme Deep Field (XDF) photo was compiled by combining ten years worth of NASA and ESA Hubble Space Telescope observations taken of a patch of sky within the original Hubble Ultra Deep Field. The Hubble Ultra Deep Field is a small area of space in the Fornax (The Furnace) constellation created using Hubble...

Lee Rannals for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Dark galaxies may have been spotted for the very first time using the European Space Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT). An international team of astronomers believe they have detected these elusive objects by observing them as they were lit up by glowing quasars. Dark galaxies are very small, gas-rich galaxies in the early universe that are inefficient at forming stars. Scientists believe these galaxies are building blocks of...

For the first time, the general public will be able to browse detailed infrared images of more than 200 galaxies. The pictures, originating from data from the orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope, will be released later this year. Dr George Bendo of the Jodrell Bank center for Astrophysics will highlight the new imagery in a preview at the National Astronomy Meeting in Manchester. The pictures are mid-infrared (24 micron wavelength) reprocessed images of nearby galaxies observed with Spitzer...

A team of astronomers from the UK, Canada and the Netherlands have commenced a revolutionary new study of cosmic star-formation history, looking back in time to when the universe was still in its lively and somewhat unruly youth! The consortium, co-led by University of Edinburgh astrophysicist Professor James Dunlop, is using a brand new camera called SCUBA-2, the most powerful camera ever developed for observing light at "sub-mm" wavelengths (light that has a wavelength 1000 times longer...

A team of astronomers at Jodrell Bank Observatory have begun the deepest ever high-resolution radio imaging of the region around the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), the images originally captured by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) in the mid 1990s. The HDF led to the discovery of numerous galaxies billions of light years distant and provided direct visual evidence of the evolution of the Universe. First results from the new imaging, which uses observations from the UK's newly upgraded e-MERLIN...

[ Video 1 ] | [ Video 2 ] Astronomers have found the strongest link ever between the most powerful bursts of star formation in the Universe, and the most massive galaxies found today. The galaxies saw the birth of new stars cut short, leaving them as massive galaxies of aging stars today, according to the new research. The astronomers also found that the emergence of supermassive black holes played a role in causing the sudden end to the starburst. Astronomers used the LABOCA...