The cosmic fireworks that characterize a starburst galaxy can abruptly fizzle out after only a relatively brief period of star formation, and astronomers want to know why. New observations from ...

The galaxies identified date back to when the universe was roughly 800 million years old, an epoch astronomers call redshift ...

A new study published in the journal Nature shows how vigorous star formation can turn the tables on a starburst galaxy by forcing hydrogen and other gases high into the surrounding galactic halo ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers have peered into the heart of a nearby starburst galaxy to better understand what powers its intense bouts of star formation. "All stars form in dense clouds of ...

This is a three-dimensional rendering of carbon monoxide (CO) in nearby starburst galaxy NGC 253. Colors correspond to the intensity of emission -- and therefore amount of CO -- from red (faint ...

New images of gas churning inside an ancient starburst galaxy help explain why this galactic firecracker underwent such frenzied star formation. Using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter ...

NGC 4449 stands out even for a starburst galaxy. Its star formation is widely distributed throughout its body rather than concentrated in a central region, as seen in most starburst galaxies.

This research was presented in a paper "The Starburst-Driven Molecular Wind in NGC 253 and the Suppression of Star Formation", by Alberto D. Bolatto et al., to appear in Nature on 25 July 2013.