Ancient galaxies pose for the camera

[Rick]

The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (aka ESO, or European Southern Observatory) has released a rather fetching snap of distant galaxies posing in the U-band - the boundary between visible light and ultraviolet - which shows some clusters of stars so old that they're seen "as they were when the universe was only two billion years old".

More: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/10/ancient_galaxies/