Astrophysics: Merge, no surge.

Source :: Nature; 10/15/2009, Vol. 461 Issue 7266, p851-851, 1p
Publication Year :: 2009
Abstract: The article offers information on a study related to merger of galaxies led by Aday Robaina of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. Galaxies that are merging and closely interacting were discovered through the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes to give birth to stars at rates only 1.8 times higher than non-interacting galaxies. An estimated eight percent of star births are triggered by galaxy mergers in the Universe about one billion and two billion parsecs away.