[4] The Baby Boom Galaxy was discovered and characterized in 2008 using a suite of telescopes operating at different wavelengths.

[5] "This galaxy is undergoing a major baby boom, producing most of its stars all at once," said Peter Capak of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology.

"If our human population was produced in a similar boom, then almost all of the people alive today would be the same age.

"[4] To that, the principal investigator of the Cosmic Evolution Surveyor, Nick Scoville of Caltech responded: "We may be witnessing, for the first time, the formation of one of the most massive elliptical galaxies in the universe.

The color green represents a denoted gas, while the blue shows other galaxies that are less active in producing stars.