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"Cosmic Supermom" Galaxy Discovered
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Full Article Link: http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/multiple-births-cosmic-scale-distant-galaxy-17011942#.UCybmaP4L3Y
Scientists have found a cosmic supermom. It's a galaxy that gives births to more stars in a day than ours does in a year.
Astronomers used NASA's Chandra X-Ray telescope to spot this distant gigantic galaxy creating about 740 new stars a year. By comparison, our Milky Way galaxy spawns just about one new star each year.
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