Hubble captures massive dead disk galaxy that challenges theories of galaxy evolution

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By combining the power of a “natural lens” in space with the capability of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers made a surprising discovery—the first example of a compact yet massive, fast-spinning, disk-shaped galaxy that stopped making stars only a few billion years after the big bang. Finding such a galaxy early in the history of […]

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June 22, 2017 at 07:47AM