Celestial Cities and the Roads That Connect Them
Observations from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope show that filamentary galaxies form stars at twice the rate of their densely clustered counterparts. This is a representation of galaxies in and surrounding a galaxy cluster called Abell 1763.
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PIA10227
Date Created
January 25, 2008
Center
JPL
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