[neverdem]

Jet Populsion Laboratory-Caltech/NASA
The nearby galaxy Messier 81 as it appears in visible light, top, and in ultraviolet light, which the NASA satellite Galaxy Evolution Explorer is using to map formation of galaxies across billions of years of cosmic time.

[Slings and Arrows]

Three Dozen New Galaxies Are Found in Nearby Space

King County, WA, election officials immediately added their votes to Gregoire's total.

[vpintheak]

Fourteen billion years after the Big Bang started it all, there is still life in the old cosmos.

All I needed to read.

[starfish923]

Beautiful photo.

Hard to believe how huge is any galaxy. Our own is simply to large to be explored by us. The fuels are inadequate, the distances are too great and our lifespans are too short.

From what Karl Saga said (BILLions and BILLions of stars) our galaxies are getting farther and farther apart from each other, thus increasing the distances.

So what's at the edge of the farthest/oldest galaxy? Spam? Lol. Is there the edge of the page out there?

Nice to think of these things at Christmas...the birth of the Son of God. That would be the same God who made the galaxy in said photo. Or if you would preferr, the God who set the big bang in motion.

[RadioAstronomer]

bttt and a Merry Christmas to you all.

My very best wishes,

RA

[bjs1779]

which means they are producing stars "at a prodigious rate," in the words of Dr. Martin.

If anyone here gets to be put in charge of developing a new planet someday, could you ping me? I would love to help out. I don't get any pings on this planet.

[Baraonda]

"Three Dozen New Galaxies Are Found in Nearby Space"

Wow! We're been finding so many galaxies lately.

Can I have just one of them for myself? I want to be my own boss and a somebody. I want to be king of the Galaxy.

Merry Christmas

[neverdem]

FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.

Merry Christmas!

[XBob]

the Galex satellite, which was launched in 2003

[Caipirabob]

Let me guess, the Dems are now attempting to leave Red states to get there? Perhaps we should revive the Apollo program...

[PGalt]

Fascinating!

[insider_uk]

Three Dozen New Galaxies Are Found

Don't tell Mrs Insider. She'll want them all for herself!!!

[winodog]

Do all the stars we see with the naked eye belong to our galaxy? The Milky Way.

[maestro]

Three Trillion New Galaxies Are Found in Nearby Space?

.........keep looking!

we don't want to miss any.

/sarcasm

[hosepipe]

Is GOD cool or WHAT ?

[Ciexyz]

Most interesting.

[sevry]

Ummm . . The babies were a pleasant surprise.

Like the parents of a woman of a certain age who long ago gave up hope of grandchildren,

If shrinks weren't such politically correct weasels, I'd suggest these astronomers consider a little therapy. Babies? Grandchildren?

This stuff they're seeing happened FOUR BILLION years ago! How the 'kid' doin? "Still". The articles reads, still. There's no still about it. It's not happening now. To call it ancient history is an astronomical understatement.