Detecting the intense green glow from the youngest galaxies to determine galactic evolution
Monday, January 9, 2017 - 06:01
in Astronomy & Space
Galaxies in the young universe were forming stars at 10- to 50-times higher rates than their modern-day counterparts, such as our Milky Way. A recent study has found that they were not merely scaled up versions of star-forming regions seen today. Instead, UCLA Professor Matthew Malkan and several collaborators have found that the earliest galaxies were "going green."