(Space Daily) Sharpest View Ever Of Distant Star Factories

Link: http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Sharpest_View_Ever_Of_Distant_Star_Factorie...

Boston MA (SPX) Mar 22, 2010 - Astronomers have combined a natural gravitational lens and a sophisticated telescope array to get the sharpest view ever of "star factories" in a galaxy over 10 billion light-years from Earth. They found that the distant galaxy, known as SMM J2135-0102, is making new stars 250 times faster than our Galaxy, the Milky Way.

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