Astronomers have used the ESO's Very Large Telescope (VLT) in conjunction with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to reveal the secrets of how star formation shuts down in distant galaxies, just three billion years after the Big Bang. Focusing on huge, quiescent elliptical galaxies known as spheroids, the findings are expected to improve our understanding of the evolution of the Universe. .. Continue Reading Hubble and VLT team up to reveal giant galaxies shutting down from the inside out
Section: Space
Tags: ESA, ESO, Hubble, NASA, Star formation, VLT
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