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Galactic shape and age go hand in hand

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Recently, large integral-field spectroscopic studies of galaxies have greatly increased our knowledge of their structure and evolution. A new analysis of such data reveals a relationship between the age and the intrinsic — three-dimensional — shape of galaxies.

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Fig. 1: Example of a typical ‘red and dead’ bulge-dominated galaxy and a blue and star-forming disk-dominated galaxy.

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