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“We do find stars with comparable speeds in mature galaxies in today’s nearby universe, but those galaxies are typically many tens of thousands of light years across,” says lead researcher Pieter van Dokkum. “Here we have a very small galaxy in the young universe whose stars behave as if they were in a giant galaxy.” (Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Field/STScI)
YALE (US)—A team of astronomers has measured the motions of stars in a very distant galaxy for the first time and discovered they are whizzing around at astonishingly high speeds—about one million miles per hour, or twice the speed at which the Sun circles our own Milky Way galaxy. Continue…
