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    An artist’s impression showing a galaxy with a molecular outflow

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    • Title An artist’s impression showing a galaxy with a molecular outflow
    • Released 09/05/2011 3:01 pm
    • Copyright ESA/AOES Medialab
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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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    • Activity Space Science
    • Mission Herschel
    • Keywords Astronomy targets , Galaxies

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