Thursday, 16 January 2014

Hubble and Galaxy Zoo find bars and baby galaxies don't mix

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Harnessing the power of both the Hubble Space Telescope and the citizen science project Galaxy Zoo, scientists have found that bar-shaped features in spiral galaxies accelerate the galaxy aging process. The astronomers found that the fraction of spiral galaxies with bar features has doubled in the last eight billion years – the latter half of the history of the universe.

via Science Daily

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