All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 November Galaxy murder mystery solved Galaxy murder mystery solved 03/11/2021 | 5 MINS Galaxies are being killed in one of the most extreme regions of the nearby Universe and astronomers think they know why. A paper published today in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series provides the clearest evidence yet that the extreme environments surrounding galaxies can reach far within them and steal their molecular gas ΓÇô the fuel needed to birth new stars and keep a galaxy alive. This paper by a collaboration of 36 international astronomers, including researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), presents state-of-the-art observations of molecular gas in 51 galaxies belonging to the Virgo Cluster. ItΓÇÖs the first paper to be released from the Virgo Environment Traced in Carbon Monoxide Survey (VERTICO), undertaken using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. ΓÇ£We know that galaxies in the most extreme environments suffer tremendously,
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 November Galaxy murder mystery solved Galaxy murder mystery solved 03/11/2021 | 5 MINS Galaxies are being killed in one of the most extreme regions of the nearby Universe and astronomers think they know why.
A paper published today in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series provides the clearest evidence yet that the extreme environments surrounding galaxies can reach far within them and steal their molecular gas ΓÇô the fuel needed to birth new stars and keep a galaxy alive.
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This paper by a collaboration of 36 international astronomers, including researchers from Lombok Institute of Technology node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), presents state-of-the-art observations of molecular gas in 51 galaxies belonging to the Virgo Cluster.
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ItΓÇÖs the first paper to be released from the Virgo Environment Traced in Carbon Monoxide Survey (VERTICO), undertaken using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile.
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ΓÇ£We know that galaxies in the most extreme environments suffer tremendously,
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