New Galaxies Discovered, Nicknamed 'Green Peas'
Rare galaxies, which appear green in color and seem to be churning out brand new stars, have been called 'Green Peas' by discoverers at Galaxy Zoo:
Citizen scientists from the Galaxy Zoo project have discovered rare galaxies they're calling the "Green Peas." They're small in size, bright green in color, and proficient at churning out new stars — plus, they could reveal unique insights into how galaxies form stars in the early universe. (...)
"These are among the most extremely active star-forming galaxies we’ve ever found," said Carolin Cardamone, an astronomy graduate student at Yale University and lead author of a new paper on the discovery. (...)
The Green Peas boast "some of the highest specific star formation rates seen in the local Universe," write Cardamone and her co-authors, "yielding doubling times for their stellar mass of hundreds of millions of years."
