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Mordecai-Mark Mac Low1

  • 1Department of Astrophysics, American Museum of Natural History, 79th Street at Central Park West, New York, NY 10024, USA. mordecai@amnh.org

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|July 2, 2013
PubMed
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La densidad de la tasa de formación estelar del universo alcanzó su punto máximo hace 10 mil millones de años, superando los niveles actuales diez veces. Comprender esta historia cósmica dinámica requiere observaciones y simulaciones avanzadas para modelar con precisión la retroalimentación estelar.

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