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Tohoku University

Figure 1

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The figures illustrate the revealed sequential disk formation in this study: thick disk only galaxies dominate the early epochs (bottom panel), while galaxies exhibiting both thin and thick disks appear more commonly in later epochs of the universe (top panel).

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NASA, ESA, CSA, T. Tsukui

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