Note that regions of Milky Way are blue
from bursts of star formation, while the young, dead galaxy is yellow, signifying an older star population and no new star birth.
Not exact matches
Scientists believe that gas and dust may have been stripped by nearby galaxies or
from an early
burst of star formation that used up all the gas.
The
formation of short gamma - ray
bursts lasting less than two seconds
from a meger between two neutron
stars to create a black hole has been modelled with a supercomputer (more).
From supermassive black holes at galactic centers to giant
bursts of star formation to titanic collisions between galaxies, these discoveries allow astronomers to probe the current properties
of galaxies as well as examine how they formed and developed.
Messier 108 also contains H1 supershells, shells
of expanding gas driven either by
bursts of star formation and the resulting supernova explosions, or by infall
of gas
from outside the galaxy, or possibly by radio jets.