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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Weijmans, AM. Galactic shape and age go hand in hand. Nat Astron 2, 445–446 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-018-0454-8
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