Gas Spirals Into Galaxies (IMAGE)

California Institute of Technology

Gas Spirals Into Galaxies

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Artist's impression of a growing galaxy shows gas spiraling in toward the center. New observations from the Keck Cosmic Web Imager provide the best evidence yet that cold gas spirals directly into growing galaxies via filamentous structures. Much of the gas ends up being converted into stars.

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Adam Makarenko/W. M. Keck Observatory

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