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Death of Giant Galaxies Spreads from the Core

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Apr 16, 2015
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NASA/ESA/Judy Schmidt and J. Blakeslee (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory).

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's Very Large Telescope revealed that 3 billion years after the Big Bang, "dead galaxies" like Elliptical galaxy IC 2006 still made stars on their outskirts, but no longer in their interiors.

Story: http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1508/.

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