Sentences with phrase «new dwarf galaxy»
The faintest of the new dwarf galaxy candidates has about 500 stars.
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«Dark Energy Survey finds more celestial neighbors: New dwarf galaxy candidates could mean our sky is more crowded than we thought.»
Not exact matches
New little galaxies are still popping up in the universe, according to detailed images of a disturbed dwarf galaxy.
As Wetzel explained: «By improving how we modeled the physics of stars, this new simulation offered a clear theoretical demonstration that we can, indeed, understand the dwarf galaxies we've observed around the Milky Way.
This map has led to the discovery of 17 dwarf galaxy candidates in the past six months (red dots), including eight new candidates announced today.
New theoretical modeling work from Andrew Wetzel, who holds a joint fellowship between Carnegie and Caltech, offers the most accurate predictions to date about the dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way's neighborhood.
New images show that two rivers of stars — and possibly dark matter — are all that remain of one dwarf galaxy.
«Reconciling dwarf galaxies with dark matter: New modeling work offers the most accurate predictions to date about the dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way's neighborhood.»
Red dwarf stars, which are by far the most common stars in our galaxy, were once considered unlikely places to find Earth - like planets, but new studies contradict that view.
But the new discoveries include almost every kind of galaxy, from shapeless dwarfs to disc - like giants three times the size of our Galaxy.
Dwarf galaxies, amorphous blobs of only tens of millions of stars, were cranking out nearly a third of the new stars in the universe from about 8 billion to 10 billion years ago, according to new research posted June 17 on arXiv.org.
Dwarf galaxies ferociously churned out stars in the early universe, according to new Hubble Space Telescope observations of a patch of sky in the constellation Ursa Major.
According to a very rough statistical analysis, the new discovery suggests that up to one - third of all red dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy are accompanied by small, rocky planets, many of which might be in wider orbits.
But a new study of Fornax, a dwarf galaxy orbiting our own, suggests that might not be true.
A new computer re-enactment of billions of years of galactic evolution suggests that the Milky Way owes much of its current shape to interactions with a nearby dwarf galaxy.
To make matters worse, the magnified object is a starbursting dwarf galaxy: a comparatively light galaxy (it has only about 100 million solar masses in the form of stars [3]-RRB-, but extremely young (about 10 - 40 million years old) and producing new stars at an enormous rate.
Named the Crater 2 dwarf, the new galaxy is not apparent to human eyes as its stars are so spread out, although some stars within it are visible.
THE galaxy's empire has a new colony — a dwarf galaxy larger than nearly all the other satellites of the Milky Way.
Residing in the dwarf galaxy IC 10, 1.8 million light - years away in the constellation Cassiopeia, the new black hole puzzles researchers because it is thought that the kind of star that would give birth to it would not have retained enough mass to produce such a large object.
New research by Harvard astronomers shows that half of those stars might have been ripped from another galaxy: the Sagittarius dwarf.
She says uncertainty in these new measurements means the orbits of these dwarf galaxies may not be as nicely aligned as they seem.
The star - forming dwarf galaxy in the new study was found during an ongoing, large - scale inventory of the heavens, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which revealed it as a possible point of interest.
While dwarf galaxies are not massive, they are the most numerous galaxy type in the universe: understanding this assemblage will undoubtedly shed new insight into the formation of galaxies at all masses.
A new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image shows globular cluster NGC 1846, a spherical collection of hundreds of thousands of stars in the outer halo of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring dwarf galaxy of the Milky Way that can be seen from the southern hemisphere.
- A new study examines the prevalence of planets around red dwarf stars, the most common type of star in the galaxy.
«Dwarf spheroidal» galaxies like KKs3 have no spiral arms and lack any gas or dust, the substances needed to create new stars.
An intensive study of a neighboring dwarf galaxy has surprised astronomers by showing that most of its molecular gas — the raw material for new stars — is scattered among clumps in the galaxy's outskirts, not near its center as they expected.
The new data indicate that stars in the Sculptor dwarf galaxy move preferentially on elongated radial orbits.
The new satellites were found in the southern hemisphere near the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud, the largest and most well - known dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way's orbit.
NGC 1569 (centre) is only a dwarf galaxy but it is probably the nearest example of a starburst galaxy - a galaxy which is rapidly forming a lot of new stars.
The object, identified as FRB 121102, is located in a dwarf galaxy some three billion light years from Earth and was first detected giving off a fast radio burst back in November 2012, according to New Scientist.