A galaxy in 'midlife crisis' (IMAGE)

University of Kansas

A galaxy in 'midlife crisis'

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Using NASA's SOFIA telescope, researchers from the University of Kansas have found CQ 4479, a galaxy which never had been closely studied before, to be generating new stars in spite of the luminous AGN at the galaxy's center.

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