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Monday, November 19, 2012

Stopped New Stars Production?



Has The Universe Stopped Producing New Stars?


  • This full-field image of the nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is shown as released by NASAREUTERS/NASA, ESA, AND THE HUBBLE HERITAGE This full-field image of the nearby dwarf galaxy NGC 4214 taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is shown as released by NASA May 12, 2011. The Hubble image reveals a sequence of steps in the formation and evolution of stars and star clusters, evident in the glowing gas surrounding bright stellar clusters.


Using three telescopes — the Subaru Telescope and the UK Infrared Telescope in
 Hawaii and the Very Large Telescope inChile — the team put together the most robust survey of star formation yet.An international team of astronomers has published a new study suggesting that nearly all of the stars that will ever exist in our universe have in fact already been born.

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