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Telescopes and space missions

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Home » Astronomy and space » Telescopes and space missions » Do spiral galaxies form from the inside out?

Do spiral galaxies form from the inside out?

12 Apr 2011
Artist's impression of the Milky Way
By exploiting a lucky accident, astronomers have for the first time measured a key property of a spi

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Ken Croswell is an astronomer and author of eight astronomy books, including The Lives of Stars
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