Periodic Reporting for period 1 - eGALISM (Characterizing properties of the interstellar medium to better understand how stars form in galaxies)

The universe hosts a zoo of galaxies with different sizes and shapes. Our Galaxy, the Milky Way, is a rather large and massive spiral galaxy, with 250 billion stars and about one new star forming every year. At early epochs of the universe, galaxies were smaller but forming...