Elliptical Galaxies Still Producing Stars
By Staff .
Astronomers at the University of Michigan using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that elliptical galaxies previously though to be dead are still producing stars, relatively slowly but apparently steadily.
Using Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3, astronomers Alyson Force and Joel Bregman found young stars and star clusters in four galaxies about 40 million light years from the ...