Rare birth of mega-galaxy captured by space telescope | ummid.com

Rare birth of mega-galaxy captured by space telescope | ummid.com
Follow-up studies by other telescopes, including NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, confirmed that two galaxies, "located about 11 billion light-years from Earth, during a time when our universe was about three billion years old", were "intertwined and furiously making stars" at a rate of about 2,000 stars a year, NASA said in a statement.