
Evidence from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer and Galaxy Evolution Explorer missions provide support for the inside-out theory of galaxy evolution, which holds that star formation starts at the core of the galaxy and spreads outward.
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October 31, 2013
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JPL
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