Hubble and Galaxy Zoo find bars and baby galaxies don't mix
Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 10:30
in Astronomy & Space
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.