November 2, 2026

Stars make oxygen for small galaxies, but they lose most of it

Read the source: Phys.org (Space News section) (opens in new tab)

Scientists found that small galaxies have less oxygen than their stars produce. Researchers studied 37 dwarf galaxies within 22 million light-years of Earth using data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The results were published in The Astrophysical Journal.

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