Sentences with phrase «while dwarf galaxies»

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.

Not exact matches

It had been a mystery how some dwarf galaxies can be so devoid of stars, while remaining full of dark matter.

Rather than studying bright stars, the two students used Hubble Space Telescope data from 274 dwarf stars, which were serendipitously observed by the orbiting observatory while it was looking for the most distant galaxies in the early Universe.

The densest places would have had more rapid star formation to make the elliptical galaxies while the lower density concentrations would have made the spiral galaxies and dwarf galaxies.

The nearest dwarf galaxies, satellites of the Milky Way, are only a few 100,000 light years distant, while the nearest giant neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy, also a spiral, is about 2 - 3 million light years distant.

While UDGs were originally identified in the cluster environment, several theoretical models suggest that UDGs are a subset of the dwarf galaxy population and should also be found in isolation.

While theory and observations agree for galaxies with circular velocities above ~ 100 km / s, theory predicts far more dwarfs below this velocity than we observe.

These are two minor galaxies in the same constellation Sagittarius, which are of different type: The difference between these types is that dwarf irregulars still have interstellar matter and / or young stars while the dwarf elliptical have only an old yellowish stellar population.