Bars kill spiral galaxies
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 - 07:50
in Astronomy & Space
With the help of the army of volunteers working on the Galaxy Zoo 2 'citizen science' project (www.galaxyzoo.org), an international team of scientists have discovered that the bars found in many spiral galaxies could be helping to kill them off. The researchers present their results in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society...