True Shapes Of Galaxies 11 Billion Years Ago

19/08/2013 15:35

MessageToEagle.com - How does galaxy morphology change as we look further back in time, to when the Universe was very young? "This is a key question: when and over what timescale did the Hubble Sequence form?" says BoMee Lee of the University of Massachusetts, USA, lead author of a new paper. "To do this you need to peer at distant galaxies and compare them to their closer relatives, to see if they too can be described in the same way." [Read more] ...