Sentences with phrase «dragonfly telescope»
It paid off: Using their new Dragonfly telescope, they uncovered 47 extremely faint, spread - out galaxies.
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The spiral galaxy M101 takes center stage in this photo from the Dragonfly telescope, but astronomers are also interested in the fainter galaxies lurking in the background.
The novel Dragonfly telescope in New Mexico has helped researchers find dozens of previously unknown ultra-diffuse galaxies.
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I've surveyed rare orchids and an endangered dragonfly, participated in prescribed burns at our prairie site, and taken students to watch through night vision telescopes as bats exit from our hibernaculum.
Observations from the Gemini North telescope showed that Dragonfly 44 has «a halo of spherical clusters of stars around the galaxy's core, similar to the halo that surrounds our Milky Way galaxy.»
Using some of the planet's most powerful telescopes, astronomers decided to zoom - in on the galactic oddity called Dragonfly 44 to find it wasn't one of your run - of - the - mill galaxies, it is in fact a galaxy rammed full of material we can't see.
The galaxy was discovered using the Dragonfly Telephoto Array, a telescope in New Mexico that's custom - made to seek out these elusive targets.