Sentences with phrase «sculptor dwarf galaxy»
From its stellar contents, it is resembling other low surface brightness members of the local group such as the Sculptor dwarf galaxy, but it is so highly obscured that it was hidden up to the 1994 investigation.
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The new data indicate that stars in the Sculptor dwarf galaxy move preferentially on elongated radial orbits.
Massari, Helmi and colleagues measured the proper motions of roughly a hundred stars in the Sculptor dwarf galaxy.
A Carnegie - based search of nearby galaxies for their oldest stars has uncovered two stars in the Sculptor dwarf galaxy that were born shortly after the galaxy formed, approximately 13 billion years ago.
This is the Sculptor dwarf galaxy composed from data from the Digitized Sky Survey 2, courtesy of ESO / Digitized Sky Survey 2.
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The Sculptor dwarf is a small galaxy that orbits around our own Milky Way, just as the Moon orbits around the Earth.
«Dwarf spheroidal galaxies like Sculptor are some of the most dark matter dominated objects we know of in the Universe,» says Helmi.
Below - three dwarf galaxies in the Sculptor group.
ESO 407 - 18 (left) is an irregular dwarf galaxy which like NGC 55 is at the front of the Sculptor Group about 6 or 7 million light years from us.