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Hubble observation of NGC 4449, released July 3, 2007. This galaxy is included in the GLOW study; the image is archival, not a newly taken photograph. NASA, ESA, A. Aloisi (STScI/ESA), and The Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. CC BY 4.0. Image source and attribution · License / reuse terms. Resized and JPEG recompressed; native thumbnail derivatives may be cropped. No synthetic imagery.
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Where Did the Oxygen Go? Hubble Study Finds Dwarf Galaxies Keep...
A survey of 37 nearby dwarf galaxies finds that most of the oxygen their stars produced is no longer inside them. The result challenges models of how small galaxies evolve.
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