Astronomers have shown for the first time how star formation in "dead" galaxies sputtered out billions of years ago. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that three billion years after the Big Bang, these galaxies still made stars on their outskirts, but no longer in their interiors. The quenching of star formation seems to have started in the cores of the galaxies and then spread to the outer parts. The results will be published in the 17 April 2015 issue of the journal Science.
The release, images and videos are available on:
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1508/
Kind regards,
ESA/Hubble Information Centre
The ESO Education and Public Outreach Department
16 April 2015
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9 April 2015: Many thanks to everyone who entered the Ode to Hubble competition. We were absolutely taken aback by the work and creativity that was put into the entries.
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