"The fact that we found this galaxy in a tiny region of the sky means that there should be more of these out there," said lead study author Jakob Helton, a graduate researcher at Steward Observatory.

This month the Sky at Night is focusing all its attention on one object M51 aka The Whirlpool Galaxy. Sitting approximately 30 million light years from Earth, this spectacular spiral galaxy was ...

More stars formed, turning nearly all the opaque, neutral hydrogen atoms into a transparent broth of ionised ... the cosmic dark ages and the start of galaxy formation. These first stars and ...