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More than 60 images capturing huge expanses of sky are sent to us from Chile. Within them we can see thousands of bright spots. What do we find when we look closer?
These results might lead us to revise our understanding of how galaxies stop forming their stars.
COVID-19 may have messed up school and shut down a lot of entertainment venues. But you can still brighten things up by doing a little stargazing at night, an astronomer says.
Massive, far distant galaxies contain 100 times more gas than we thought possible.
Galaxies are supposed to be the place where new stars are formed. So what causes some to stop this stellar production line?
Extragalactic astrophysicists want to know how and why galaxies stop forming stars, change their shape and fade away. With help from citizen scientists, they’re figuring it out.
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology
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University Distinguished Professor of Astronomy, University of Arizona
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