Most galaxies age slowly as they run out of raw materials needed for growth over billions of years, but a pilot study has found some might shoot out this gas early on, causing them to redden and die prematurely.
Located in the Fornax Galaxy Cluster some 60 million light-years from Earth, IC 335 is an edge-on lenticular system — an intermediate state in galaxy morphological classification schemes between true spiral and elliptical galaxies.