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ScienceDaily: Galaxies News

ScienceDaily: Galaxies News


Warm gas pours 'cold water' on galaxy's star-making

Posted: 08 Dec 2014 09:43 AM PST

Some like it hot, but for creating new stars, a cool cosmic environment is ideal. As a new study suggests, a surge of warm gas into a nearby galaxy -- left over from the devouring of a separate galaxy -- has extinguished star formation by agitating the available chilled gas.

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