Milky Way ransacks nearby dwarf galaxies, stripping all traces of star-forming gas
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 - 14:01
in Astronomy & Space
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) in West Virginia, along with data from other large radio telescopes, have discovered that our nearest galactic neighbors, the dwarf spheroidal galaxies, are devoid of star-forming gas, and that our Milky Way Galaxy is to blame.