By SPACE.com Staff
posted: 07:00 am ET
25 March 2002
A new picture from the Hubble Space Telescope shows a galaxy ablaze with star
formation.
NGC 7673 is a relatively nearby example of the type of vigorous star formation
that researchers think may have taken place in the early universe. Telltale
patches of blue light are signs of the formation of millions of new stars.
But researchers puzzle over why there is such a remarkable flurry of star
formation.
Either a near miss or a collision between N
