Hubble Uncovers a Galaxy Pair Coming in From the Wilderness
Thursday, August 11, 2016 - 12:51
in Astronomy & Space
Hubble has captured the glow of new stars in the small, ancient galaxies Pisces A and Pisces B. They should've produced the bulk of their stars long ago, but these dwarf galaxies dwelled for billions of years in the Local Void, a region of the universe sparsely populated with galaxies. Now the tiny galaxies have moved into a region packed with galaxies and intergalactic gas triggering star birth.