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Messier 83 Hints At How Star-Forming Gas Behaves in Barred Spirals Like Our Own


The life cycle of molecular gas in the barred spiral galaxy Messier 83 appears to be driven mainly by the galaxy’s large-scale structure and rotation, rather than by feedback from newborn stars, according to a new study.

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