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How do galaxies die?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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What's the Average Age of a Galaxy?

If you hold up your pink at arm's length, then the part of your sky blocked by your finger nail on your pinki contains about a million galaxies. Galaxies are really old, like the milky ways, almost as old as the universe. A lot of them in the first billion years of the universe. Many of them are more than ten billion years old.

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