... Star Atlas . ... Cosmic GDP crashes as star formation slumps . ... While parts of the world experience economic hardship, a team of Portuguese, United Kingdom, Japanese, Italian, and Dutch astronomers has found an even bigger slump happening on a cosmic scale.ТљIn the largest ever study of its kind, the international team of astronomers has established that the rate of formation of new stars in the universe is now only one-thirtieth of its peak and that this decline is only set to continue. ...