- Our galaxy could be gradually dying. A team of stellar archaeologists have found the first evidence that the Milky Way stopped giving birth to stars after it formed a thick saucer-like disc around 8 billion years ago, suggesting such “quenching” can happen even before a galaxy runs out of gas. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2079278-ageing-milky-way-stopped-making-stars-before-it-ran-out-of-gas/ 5 comments worldnews
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