The universe has plenty of hydrogen. So why is star formation collapsing?

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The universe is producing fewer stellar "babies." Over the past 4.5 billion years, the rate at which new stars form has fallen to less than half its previous level. Yet the supply of one of the most important types of "fuel" for star formation has changed surprisingly little.

That finding comes from an international research team led by scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), working with the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) project. ...

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