Sentences with phrase «large numbers of galaxies»

The new method will be invaluable for statistical studies of large numbers of galaxies, says Laura Ferrarese of Rutgers University in Piscataway, New Jersey, co-discoverer of the velocity dispersion correlation.

Maunakea, Hawaii — An international team of astronomers, led by Michele Cappellari from the University of Oxford, has used data gathered by the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii to analyze the motions of stars in the outer parts of elliptical galaxies, in the first such survey to capture large numbers of these galaxies.

Large numbers of galaxies are elliptical in shape, red and mostly made up of old stars.

Many galaxies in this catalogue are dwarf galaxies with indistinct structures, or active galaxies generating powerful jets — but a large number of the galaxies are interacting, such as Messier 51, the Antennae Galaxies, and Arp 256.

Astronomers were also surprised by the large number of galaxy interactions occurring in clusters of galaxies and in very distant — and thus very young — galaxies.

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