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Possible Missing Link Between Young and Old Galaxies


January 10, 2011

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University of California, Berkeley, astronomers may have found the missing link between young, gas-filled, star-forming galaxies and older, gas-depleted galaxies typically characterized as "red and dead." Leo Blitz and Katherine Alatalo report that a long-known "early-type" galaxy, NGC 1266, is expelling molecular gas, mostly hydrogen, from its core. The unusual galaxy may help explain how gas-filled galaxies rid themselves of their molecular gas.Full Story

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