Where stars are born...

Image credit: Nasa/JPL-Caltech/Subaru

A new Galaxy has been discovered by NASA, dubbed the "Baby Boom Galaxy" The Galaxy produces 4000 stars per year according to NASA.

A set of telescopes were used in the discovery of this starburst.

Its distance from the earth is 12.3 billion light-years!!!

To put this the distance of this galaxy from Earth into perspective:-
(1 Light Year =

speed of light per second x total amount of seconds in 1 year)

= 300000km per second x 31536000 seconds in 1 year
= 9460,800,000,000 Kms in 1 Light Year

A distance of 1Light Year will allow you to circumnavigate around the Earth 236,076,412 times. Eish I'd be tired :-)

Now add 12,3 Billion to the equation:-
The "Baby Boom Galaxy" therefore is:-
12,300,000,000 x 9460,800,000,000 = 116,367,840,000,000,000,000,000 Kms from the earth!!!!

Hypothetically should a person start walking on the day he is born and walk for 80 years without resting, at 1 meter per second the distance will be equal to ((1m x 31536000 seconds in 1 year) * 80 Years) / 1000 to convert to Kms = 2,522,880 Kms or almost 63 times around the earth.

How Many life times will it take to walk to the Baby Boom Galaxy?
Assuming that the life expectancy of all the people is exactly 80 years. To walk from Earth to the "Baby Boom Galaxy", if this was possible, will take 46,100,000,000,000,000 or Forty-Six-Thousand-One-Hundred-Trillion life times, now thats a lot of people!!!...and a lot of walking...