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The case of the missing ellipticals

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  • Guinevere Kauffmann

    (the Max-Planck-Institut fr Astrophysik)

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When did galaxies form? Some believe that they have evolved through a complex series of interactions over most of the age of the Universe; others that many galaxies were created in a well-defined event at a very early time. Now a survey of the colours of very distant galaxies has found that ellipticals are very scarce in the early Universe, supporting the idea that ellipticals, and galaxies in general, form by mergers of smaller precursor galaxies.

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  • Guinevere Kauffmann, 1997. "The case of the missing ellipticals," Nature, Nature, vol. 390(6658), pages 346-347, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:390:y:1997:i:6658:d:10.1038_37005
    DOI: 10.1038/37005
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