Galaxies Grow from Inside Out
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.
- Date
- 2013-10-31
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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