Baby Boom
Picture is taken from here. Picture above is not the newly-found Baby Boom galaxy. It is Zw II 96.
Zw II 96 and the Baby Boom galaxy are both known as starbursts because they are producing loads of new stars every year. Zw II 96 is the result of multiple galaxies colliding together, triggering the birth of stars.
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The amazing thing about the Baby Boom galaxy is this:
The galaxy belongs to the starburst class of galaxies and has now been crowned the ‘brightest starburst galaxy in the Universe’. Brightness is indicative of a high rate of star formation.
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Now, let’s get into the number. This is how much stars the Baby Boom galaxy is able to produce:
This galaxy, which has now been dubbed the “Baby Boom” galaxy, is giving birth to about 4,000 stars per year. In comparison, our own Milky Way galaxy turns out an average of just 10 stars per year.
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That’s why it’s called Baby Boom. The baby stars just *boom* come out. Now, see the distance:
While Zw II 96 is located about 500 million light-years away, Baby Boom lies 12.3 billion light-years away
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So far, yet so bright… The most amazing thing about this Baby Boom is described so well by Aodhhann’s response here. There, I copy it below:
It reminds us to think about how different things were when the known universe was very young. Stars forming with different composition, lack or nonexistence of many elements etc. How dynamic and large different voids would be; and how they would interact with areas with a great deal of matter.
How marvelous it would be to see this galaxy the way it truly is ‘today’.
I repeat:
How marvelous it would be to see this galaxy the way it truly is ‘today’.
Things about universe have always been amazing to me. It is so huuuuggeeeee that for centuries it remains a mystery. People ask who lives out there, what they look like, etc, etc. As for me, this thought has dwelled in my mind:
It’s great if there’s another creatures existing and living out there. It’s truly a wonder when they come in different shape, different everything, or maybe similarity. We don’t know yet. But.. Wouldn’t it be more wonderful if we are the only existing creature in the whole universe and that HE has created this big, huuugeee whole thing, just for us, to make us see the wonder of HIM
Hope you have a great day, everyone!
