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Galactic Graveyard

Illustration: NASA-JPL/Caltech
Illustration: NASA-JPL/Caltech

About 10 billion light-years away from Earth, a galaxy has been pronounced dead.

A few billion years after the Big Bang, galaxy MACS 2129-1 mysteriously stopped birthing stars. Instead, the galaxy became a graveyard for stellar corpses and the decaying shells of exoplanets long gone.