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Hubble finds oxygen missing from 37 nearby dwarf galaxies
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NASA reports that Hubble studied 37 nearby dwarf galaxies and found much of their expected oxygen is missing. Researchers attribute the loss to supernova-driven galactic winds that remove oxygen from low-mass galaxies more effectively than current models predict, according to a paper in The Astrophysical Journal.
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