Astronomers using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, Europe's Herschel Space Observatory, and many ground-based telescopes have pieced together the evolutionary sequence of compact elliptical galaxies that erupted and burned out early in the history of the universe.
NASA and ESA Telescopes Help Solve Mystery of Ultra-Compact, Burned-Out Galaxies
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