Gas 'Halos' Surrounding Young Galaxy Contain Clues to Its Growth
Wednesday, July 25, 2018 - 13:45
in Astronomy & Space
Most of the ordinary matter in the universe isn't in the form of a star or a planet, but gas. And most of that gas exists not in galaxies but around and between them. A team of astronomers has found a new way to study the gas surrounding a young galaxy, BX418, with an eye toward finding clues to how the first galaxies formed.