It found similar -
looking dead galaxies existed about 10 billion years ago and, by careful examination of their light, showed they were actively building stars for less than a billion years — a blink of the eye compared with our Milky Way, which is still making stars after more than 12 billion years.
This artist's concept shows what the young,
dead, disk
galaxy MACS2129 - 1, right, would
look like when compared with the Milky Way
galaxy, left.