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The world's largest digital survey of the visible Universe, mapping billions of stars and galaxies, has been publicly released.

A recently discovered galaxy is undergoing an extraordinary boom of stellar construction, revealed by a group of astronomers led by University of Florida graduate student Jingzhe Ma using NASA's Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

This delicate blue group of stars — actually an irregular galaxy named IC 3583 — sits some 30 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin).

This elliptical galaxy is a beautiful cosmic oddity, with a bright core wrapped in system of dark, swirling, thread-like filaments.

Space energy anomalies more than 50 million light years from our galaxy are creating conditions that should be destroying stars, but instead are regenerating them.