Sentences with phrase «ghostly galaxy»
Or so we thought until astronomers found a ghostly galaxy that doesn't appear to contain any dark matter.
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The lenses are hooked up to CCDs, which van Dokkum says are finally getting good enough to distinguish the universe's mostly ghostly galaxies.
In your article on «ghostly galaxies», you state that «about 300,000 years after the big bang, the charged hydrogen that...
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In 2009, astronomers detected evidence of «Galaxy X» in the form of ghostly ripples in our own galaxy's disk.
The massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, takes on a ghostly look in this Hubble Space Telescope view where the total starlight from the cluster has been artificially colored blue.
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the faint, ghostly glow of stars ejected from ancient galaxies that were gravitationally ripped apart several billion years ago.
The universe is turning out to be thronged with dim and ghostly young galaxies that had escaped the notice of astronomers.
That stellar sparseness means it does not look much like a typical spiral galaxy, but rather a loosely connected, ghostly blob of star - pocked gas and dust.
A year and half ago, physicists working with the massive IceCube particle detector — a 3D array of 5160 light sensors buried kilometers deep in ice at the South Pole — spotted ghostly subatomic particles called neutrinos from beyond our galaxy.
«Many of these ghostly butterflies appear to have their long axes aligned along the plane of our galaxy.
«Ghostly remnants of galaxy interactions uncovered in a nearby galaxy group.»
The ghostly green structures are so far outside the galaxy that they may not light up until tens of thousands of years after the quasar outburst, and would likewise fade only tens of thousands of years after the quasar itself does.
The ghostly structures highlighting the peculiar patterns of orbiting stars in the center of the galaxy NGC 1292 stan... view image
The galaxy hosts a bright quasar that may have illuminated the ghostly structure by hitting it with a beam of light from hot gas around a central black hole.
Because of their distance from the host galaxy, the ghostly green structures might have taken tens of thousands of years to light up after the quasar outburst, and would likely fade tens of thousands of years after the quasar itself comes to an end, according to astronomers.
The ghostly object, catalogued as NGC 1052 - DF2, doesn't have a noticeable central region, or even spiral arms and a disk, typical features of a spiral galaxy.
This downcast eccentric (nicely underplayed by J.K. Simmons) gives them the standard UFO test and concludes they have a case of «the grays,» the generic name for ghostly visitors from another galaxy.
Two galaxies contain them; three in Space Junk Galaxy and two in Ghostly Galaxy.
Bomb Boos have so far only made appearances in two galaxies: the Ghostly Galaxy; during the missions Beware of Bouldergeist and Bouldergeist's Daredevil Run and in the Boss Blitz Galaxy; during the missions Throwback Throwdown and Throwback Throwdown Speed Run.