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ESO/UltraVISTA team. Acknowledgement: TERAPIX/CNRS/INSU/CASU

January 19, 2018

Study of distant galaxies challenges our understanding of how stars form

Marie Martig, Liverpool John Moores University

Massive, far distant galaxies contain 100 times more gas than we thought possible.

Spiral galaxy NGC 3953 is a veritable star making machine, but why do some galaxies stop forming new stars? NASA-Sloan Atlas

July 11, 2016

Why do some galaxies stop making new stars?

Michael J. I. Brown, Monash University; Amelia Fraser-McKelvie, Monash University, and Kevin Pimbblet, University of Hull

Galaxies are supposed to be the place where new stars are formed. So what causes some to stop this stellar production line?

Can a galaxy (like NGC 3810 in this case) have a classical spiral structure and also be already dead? ESA/Hubble and NASA

January 28, 2016

Is our Milky Way galaxy a zombie, already dead and we don’t know it?

Kevin Schawinski, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich

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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Michael J. I. Brown
Associate professor in astronomy, Monash University
Kevin Pimbblet
Senior Lecturer in Physics, University of Hull
Kevin Schawinski
Assistant Professor of Galaxy & Black Hole Astrophysics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
Amelia Fraser-McKelvie
PhD student in observational astronomy, Monash University
Marie Martig
Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics, Liverpool John Moores University

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