Galex Probe Spots Young Galaxies in Nearby Space

NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (Galex) spacecraft has discovered some newborn galaxies in the nearby Universe, surprising scientists who had thought the galactic birthrate has been dropping since the Big Bang. Scanning in the ultraviolet wavelengths, where young stars are most likely to be spotted...

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