Sentences with phrase «about distant galaxies»

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While peering through one of the clusters, Abell 2744, astronomers recently found a candidate for one of the most distant galaxies known, a toddler growing up about 500 million years after the Big Bang.

«The bulk of the distant galaxies we found are only about 3 thousand light years across in size, while our Milky Way is about 30 times larger.

The MUSE data provides a new view of dim, very distant galaxies, seen near the beginning of the Universe about 13 billion years ago.

«Quantum foam» — grainy bumps in the fabric of space - time — might explain why light from a distant galaxy arrived four minutes later than expected, offering clues about the real nature of gravity

The Hubble Space Telescope's «Ultra Deep Field» reveals about 10,000 objects in a tiny patch of sky, including some of the most distant galaxies ever seen.

About 12 million light - years distant in galaxy M82, middleweight M82 X-1 is bigger than the black holes left over from stars» deaths, but it's not big enough to be supermassive.

«Not only did we detect radio signals emitted by distant galaxies when the Universe was three billion years younger, but their gas reservoirs turned out to be unexpectedly large, about 10 times larger than the mass of hydrogen in our Milky Way.

Similarly, centrifugal forces are caused by rotation relative to the distant galaxies, so in principle you could produce centrifugal forces by standing still and making the Universe rotate about you.

About a dozen distant galaxies not recognized before are circled in this Very Large Telescope image.

When you see Jupiter shining in the night sky, for example, you're looking about an hour back in time, whereas the light from distant galaxies captured by telescopes today was emitted millions of years ago.

Supernova measurements indicate that distant galaxies are separating from one another by 73 kilometers per second for each megaparsec (about 3.3 million light - years) of distance between them.

Fast radio bursts are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant but so far unknown sources, and FRB 121102 is the only one known to repeat: more than 200 high - energy bursts have been observed coming from this source, which is located in a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light years from Earth.

Measurements based on exploding stars suggest that distant galaxies are speeding away from each other at 73 kilometers per second for each megaparsec (about 3.3 million light - years) of space between them.

It is seen passing a much more distant spiral galaxy, called NGC 3726, which is about 55 million light - years from Earth, or 2 trillion times farther away than the comet.

Most people would probably agree that astronomy is an inspiring subject, blowing our minds with astonishing facts about exploding stars, extrasolar planets and supermassive black holes while beguiling our eyes with awesome vistas of alien worlds and distant 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.

Measurements of extremely distant gas halos and galaxies indicate the baryonic matter present when the universe was only a few billion years old represented about one - sixth the mass and density of the existing unobservable, or dark, matter.

XMM - Newton also discovered a galaxy cluster that was extremely massive (about 1,000 times more massive than the Milky Way Galaxy) and extremely distant (about 7.7 billion light - years away); the evolution of such a cluster reveals how the universe itself has evolved.

An international team of astronomers has looked at something very big — a distant galaxy — to study the behavior of things very small — atoms and molecules — to gain vital clues about the fundamental nature of our entire Universe.

The core of this galaxy is about 90,000 light - years distant.

Just this year it captured the most distant single star yet, learned more about a strange stellar ring, watched two galaxies merge, and created lots of new images of the Messier objects, the distant smudges first described by astronomer Charles Messier in the 18th century.

Subsequently, however, an even more distant quasar with a tentative redshift of z = 6.40 was announced on January 9, 2003, near the SDSS detection limit of a redshift of z ~ 6.5 for bright quasars, and other teams of astronomers detected even more distant, fast - star - forming irregular proto - galaxies, including: gravitationally - lensed HCM 6A behind galaxy cluster Abell 370 with a redshift of z ~ 6.56, which appears to be converting about 40 Solar - masses into stars annually; (PhysicsWeb; IFA press release; Hu et al, 2002, in pdf; and erratum); and the possible «superwind - galaxy» LAE J1044 - 0130 (Subaru press release; and Ajiki et al, 2002, in pdf).

But scientists were unsure about the mass and brightness of the distant source because a galaxy is in the way.

If you think of peering into the depths of the universe as like looking down from the hundredth floor of the Empire State Building (with the hundredth floor representing now and street level representing the moment of the Big Bang), at the time of Wilson and Penzias's discovery the most distant galaxies anyone had ever detected were on about the sixtieth floor, and the most distant things — quasars — were on about the twentieth.

These allusions, together with his descriptions of Roden Crater as a site created to connect viewers with the movements of planets, stars, and distant galaxies, have heightened critics» suspicions about Turrell's sympathies with New Age cultures such as those famously headquartered in Sedona, Arizona, not far from Roden Crater.