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Raging Storms Sweep Away Galactic Gas

Artist Concept • nhsc2011-006a • Monday, May 9th, 2011

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An artist’s impression showing a galaxy with a molecular outflow. Herschel has discovered that such outflows can travel at 1000 km/s, which could deplete the galaxy of the gas needed for further star formation within one million to 100 million years. .

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