Sentences with phrase «as brighter galaxies»

Its 5 inch aperture ensures that it gathers plenty of light for great views of the planets and Moon, as well as brighter galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters.

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The [galaxy] they're most excited about is three times as luminous as any other galaxy of a similar age, making it «by far the brightest galaxy ever observed at this stage in the universe,» the ESO said.

As well as the SMC itself this very wide - field image reveals many background galaxies and several star clusters, including the very bright 47 Tucanae globular cluster at the right of the picturAs well as the SMC itself this very wide - field image reveals many background galaxies and several star clusters, including the very bright 47 Tucanae globular cluster at the right of the picturas the SMC itself this very wide - field image reveals many background galaxies and several star clusters, including the very bright 47 Tucanae globular cluster at the right of the picture.

She told Disney she'd spotted standalone galaxy - like objects right where the Parkes survey had found gas clouds identified as merely extended parts of nearby bright galaxies.

Using observations from several telescopes, Yale University astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and colleagues studied 10 bright clumps of stars within the galaxy, known as globular clusters, and measured their velocities.

«One in 10 of these are as bright as FRB 150807, and the Deep Synoptic Array prototype will be able to pinpoint their locations to individual galaxies.

This plot reveals that not all the starlight is contained within the cities of stars — the galaxies — which appear as bright blue - white blobs.

Minchin views this dark galaxy not as an anomaly but as perhaps a crucially important piece of evidence confirming current theories about how orderly structures — including bright galaxies like our own — emerged from the formlessness of the Big Bang.

No space probe or telescope built by humans has ever escaped the Milky Way to turn back and take a portrait; because we are embedded in our galaxy's disk, we can only see it as a bright band of stars across the sky.

Tracking the motion of this bright spot precisely should be easier than the galaxy as a whole, say the team.

An unexpected opportunity to test this model came on June 3 when NASA's Swift Space Telescope picked up the extremely bright gamma - ray burst, cataloged as GRB 130603B, in a galaxy located almost 4 billion light - years away.

The galaxies — which would appear as flat, rotating disks — are brimming with extremely bright and massive blue stars.

Marijn Franx, a member of the team from the University of Leiden highlights: «The discovery of GN - z11 was a great surprise to us, as our earlier work had suggested that such bright galaxies should not exist so early in the Universe.»

However, the discovery also raises many new questions as the existence of such a bright and large galaxy is not predicted by theory.

The Antennae galaxies, named for their insectlike appearance (left, from ground - based telescope) are two merging spiral galaxies that have spawned over 1000 young star clusters visible as bright blue spots from t

The huge mass of the cluster acts as a cosmic magnifying glass and enlarges even more distant galaxies, so they become bright enough for Hubble to see.

The «jury» didn't know which galaxies were active and which ones were quiet, as the Hubble images had been processed to hide the telltale bright cores.

In principle, Tanvir says, a bright, well - observed GRB at great distances could expose the makeup of the intergalactic medium as well as the chemistry of the star's host galaxy, which would in turn indicate the products of previous generations of stars.

For the radio waves to arrive as brightly as Schmidt saw them, after traveling that far, the object emitting them must be 100 times brighter than our entire galaxy.

J1415 +1320 is what's known as a blazar, a bright galaxy with a gluttonous supermassive black hole at its center (SN: 3/4/17, p. 13).

Stars indicate quasars and bright (faint) galaxies at the same epoch are shown as circles (dots).

They are the locations of bright stars and other nearby objects that get in the way of the observations of more distant galaxies and are hence masked out in these maps as no weak - lensing signal can be measured in these areas.

Quasars can be hundreds of times as bright as their surrounding galaxy, yet they are smaller than our Solar System.

THE Milky Way's brightest satellite galaxy stands accused of the same crime as itself: tearing apart a celestial object that wandered too close.

These streaks arch down towards NGC 2936's nearby companion, the elliptical galaxy NGC 2937, visible here as a bright white oval.

Although both galaxy types host voracious supermassive black holes known as active galactic nuclei, which actively swallow matter and emit massive amounts of radiation, Type I galaxies appear brighter to astronomers» telescopes.

Each magnified image makes the galaxy appear as much as 10 times larger and brighter than it would look without the intervening lens.

«Therefore, it's possible that we only see one bright clump magnified due to the lensing, and this is one possibility as to why it is smaller than typical field galaxies of that time.»

FRB 121102 could come from a bright region around a black hole in the centre of its host galaxy that spews radio waves as it vaporises gas and plasma.

Unimaginably powerful sources of radio emissions, brighter than entire galaxies, quasars were initially viewed as mysterious objects found billions of light - years from us but unknown in our own galactic neighborhood.

Remarkably, these supernovae were spotted as close as 600 light years from the bright nuclear regions of these galaxies — despite being at least 150 million light years from the Earth.

Previously astronomers observed steady movements among the «brightest cluster galaxies (BCGs),» which — as the name implies — are the «most luminous galaxies in the universe.»

Paper and research team These observation results were published as Toba et al. «No sign of strong molecular gas outflow in an infrared - bright dust - obscured galaxy with strong ionized - gas outflow» in the Astrophysical Journal in December 2017.

What the team directly observed was the last wave of Population III stars, suggesting that such stars should be easier to find than previously thought: they reside amongst regular stars, in brighter galaxies, not just in the earliest, smallest, and dimmest galaxies, which are so faint as to be extremely difficult to study.

To astronomers in other nearby galaxies it would be a visible as a bright pink spot on the Sagittarius Arm.

However, as it is much brighter than typical dwarf spheroids, Sidney van dan Bergh has recently introduced the term «Spheroidal Galaxy» for this and similar galaxies, including Local Group members NGC 147 and NGC 185.

When Markarian 1018 — originally a relatively dim galaxy — was observed shining brightly in the 1980s, scientists categorized it as a Type I Seyfert — galaxies that are very bright sources of X-rays, as well as ultraviolet and visible light.

This illustration reveals the celestial fireworks deep inside the crowded core of a developing galaxy, as seen from a hypothetical planetary system consisting of a bright, white star and single planet.

Past attempts to find missing satellites around external galaxies at well - known distances have been unsuccessful because of the need for a very sensitive instrument capable of producing high - fidelity images, even in the vicinity of a bright source such as the Andromeda Galaxy.

But from this angle, the clusters of stars in between Hubble and the galaxy in question have so much mass that they act as a second, natural telescope, magnifying it and making it brighter.

Click to Enlarge (JPEG / 138.4 KB) This schematic image represents how light from a distant galaxy is distorted by the gravitational effects of a nearer foreground galaxy, which acts like a lens and makes the distant source appear distorted, but brighter, forming characteristic rings of light, known as Einstein rings.

«We are using the massive amounts of dark matter surrounding galaxies half - way across the Universe as cosmic telescopes to make even more distant galaxies appear bigger and brighter.»

The astronomers had expected to find a number of ancient galaxies known as ellipticals, but instead discovered that, out of the 800,000 sample galaxies included in the study, 53 of the brightest examples were in fact spiral - shaped.

For an object to appear as bright as most quasars do at their calculated distances, it must emit more energy than several dozen galaxies put together.

Its larger namesake the Sombrero Galaxy is another stunning example of an edge - on galaxy — in fact, the «Little Sombrero» is about the same size as its bright namesake at about 60 000 light - years across, but as it lies further away, it appears smaller in the sky (Credit: ESA / Hubble & NASA Acknowledgement: Josh Barrington)

In regards to this, Professor Ohta commented, «This is a big step towards getting the big picture of galaxy evolution as the objects connecting especially bright galaxies in millimeter / submillimeter waves and normal galaxies were detected with ALMA.»

Although GRB 000131, like other gamma - ray bursts, appears to have taken place in a remote «early galaxy» (or «sub-galactic clumps» of stars) that is smaller than today's luminous galaxies, astronomers found it difficult to detect that extremely dim, sub-galactic clump of stars even with the Hubble Space Telescope, as the observed fading of the afterglow indicated that the maximum brightness of the gamma - ray emission was explosion was at least 10,000 times brighter than its host galaxy.

A new analysis of galaxy colors, however, indicates that the farthest objects in the deep fields must be extremely intense, unexpectedly bright knots of blue - white, hot newborn stars embedded in primordial proto - galaxies that are too faint to be seen even by Hubble's far vision — as if only the lights on a distant Christmas tree were seen and so one must infer the presence of the whole tree (more discussion at: STScI; and Lanzetta et al, 2002).

Left - NGC 1313, a bright but rather isolated galaxy classified as a barred spiral galaxy (although with very short and irregular spiral arms).

Unlike HST, which could only see bright galaxies, LUVOIR should be able to see both bright and dim ones, opening up new areas in space sciences, including what many people view as the «holy grail» of space exploration — the search for extraterrestrial life.