Busiest Galaxy

Forming 4,000 stars per year and putting our own galaxy to shame (the Milky Way makes about 4 each year), GOODS 850-5 is reshaping astronomers' ideas about the rate of galaxy formation in the early Universe

Visible-light, left (from Hubble Space Telescope) and infrared, right (from Spitzer Telescope). Image: Wang et al., STScI, Spitzer, NASA, NRAO/AUI/NSF