Galaxy Has 1,000 Times Our Rate of Star Formation

Here in the Milky Way, new stars are formed at a rate of roughly 4 per year; that’s considered pretty normal for spiral galaxy like ours. But researchers have found a galaxy that’s absolutely bursting with new star formation. Instead of our leisurely 4 stars per year, this distant galaxy is generating more than 4,000 new stars a year.
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