Hubble Space Telescope and ESO's Very Large Telescope revealed 3 billion years after the Big Bang, 'dead galaxies' like Elliptical galaxy IC 2006, , still made stars on their outskirts, but no longer in their interiors.
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and ESO’s Very Large Telescope revealed 3 billion years after the Big Bang, “dead galaxies” like Elliptical galaxy IC 2006, still made stars on their outskirts, but no longer in their interiors.
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Credit: NASA/ESA/Judy Schmidt and J. Blakeslee (Dominion Astrophysical Observatory).