- Space Mysteries: If the universe is 13.8 billion years old, how can a star be more than 14 billion years old? https://www.space.com/how-can-a-star-be-older-than-the-universe.html?utm_source=pocket-newtab 7 comments space
- NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes help astronomers spot the most distant galaxy ever seen at 13.2 billion years old when the universe was just 500 million years old. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/news/spitzer20120919.html 12 comments science
- Today a team of American astronomers have solved a 50-year-old mystery: why the universe's brightest galaxies are so absurdly luminous. Impartial scientists have said the new paper “offer[s] unprecedented clarity in understanding the origins of such deep-space monsters.” http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/deep-space/a17463/brightest-galaxies 102 comments science