Warm gas pours 'cold water' on galaxy's star-making
Monday, December 8, 2014 - 16:00
in Astronomy & Space
Some like it hot, but for creating new stars, a cool cosmic environment is ideal. As a new study suggests, a surge of warm gas into a nearby galaxy -- left over from the devouring of a separate galaxy -- has extinguished star formation by agitating the available chilled gas.