Gas location drives star formation in distant galaxies

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Other, 21/05/2025, Rockwell McGellin
Astronomers have found that it is not how much gas a galaxy has, but where that gas is located, that determines whether new stars form. Researchers at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) made the discovery about galaxies by studying the gas distribution that helps create stars. Using CSIRO’s ASKAP radio telescope located at Inyarrimanha Ilgari Bundara, the CSIRO Murchison Radio-astronomy Observatory, researchers explored the gas distribution in about 1,000 galaxies as part of the WALLABY survey.

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