Sentences with phrase «at distant galaxies»

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NASA's latest space surveyor should be able to peer at distant galaxies and uncover dim objects right in our own celestial backyard

To do so, they used the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array (ALMA) to look at distant galaxies seen as they were some 10 billion years ago.

The lens also magnifies the background light source, acting as a «natural telescope» that allows astronomers a more detailed look at distant galaxies than is normally possible.

Looking at a distant galaxy: the radio chart (left) shows the image of the blazar PKS 1830 - 211 distorted by the gravitational lens effect.

The end result is a much better look at a distant galaxy than we can get with technology alone.

Not exact matches

A look at the universe and all its wonders — from our neighborhood around the sun to the most distant galaxy, and beyond.

Journey up from the smallest particles, past the moons and planets of the Solar System, out through the Oort Cloud to the Milky Way, past our Local Stars and out to distant galaxies before arriving, finally, at the edge of the known Universe.

Journey up from the smallest particles, past the moons and planets of the Solar System, out through the Milky Way, past our Local Stars and then to distant galaxies before arriving, finally, at the edge of the known Universe.

Completed in 1980 but operational before then, the VLA was behind the discoveries of water ice on Mercury; the complex region surrounding Sagittarius A *, the black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy; and it helped astronomers identify a distant galaxy already pumping out stars less than a billion years after the big bang.

A closer look at this beautiful new picture not only allows a very detailed inspection of the star - forming spiral arms of the galaxy, but also reveals the very rich scenery of the more distant galaxies scattered behind the myriad stars and glowing clouds of NGC 598.

The instrument is sensitive to near - infrared light, the wavelengths at which the emissions of extremely distant galaxies — stretched by the expansion of space — shine most brightly.

«You build bigger, you go fainter, you go deeper, and you'll have a shot at a major discovery,» explains Pudritz, «So building these larger machines will no doubt allow us to study the birth of the first galaxies and even planet formation around distant stars.

A team of astronomers, led by Karina Caputi of the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute at the University of Groningen, has now unearthed many distant galaxies that had escaped earlier scrutiny.

Emitted in a distant galaxy when multicellular life was just beginning to populate Earth, the waves traveled at the speed of light for more than a billion years to at last wash over our planet last September, taking just seven milliseconds to traverse the distance between LIGO's twin listening stations in Louisiana and Washington State.

Christian Marinoni and Adeline Buzz at the University of Provence in Marseille, France, realised they could fine - tune such estimates by observing distant galaxy systems in which two galaxies orbit each other.

Guyon adds that the system will help astronomers to study the skies more efficiently, by bringing large objects, such as nearby galaxies, into focus all at once, and by allowing more distant objects to be studied in a single snapshot.

This animation outlines the rays» journey to Earth from one possible starting point: being launched from a black hole at the center of a distant galaxy.

According to recent measurements by a Nobel prizewinning team, space is stretching 9 per cent faster than we think it should be — yanking distant galaxies away from us at a rate that defies easy explanation.

Every 12 years, a black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy completes an orbit around an even bigger black hole, marking this with a violent outburst

At this very moment the most distant galaxies are tugging at you, and you are tugging theAt this very moment the most distant galaxies are tugging at you, and you are tugging theat you, and you are tugging them.

When the astronomers looked at several distant galaxies using the New Technology Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile and two telescopes at the Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, they found that their observations tied in exactly with Dopita's predictions.

Looking at random parts of the sky with Hubble, astronomers have found what appears to be the most distant protocluster ever seen: five galaxies in the process of growth, forming a cosmic collection that may grow into a massive cluster.

The objects causing these low - frequency ripples — such as orbiting supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies — would be different from the higher frequency ripples, emitted by collisions of much smaller black holes, that have so far been detected on Earth.

The distant galaxy, known as SDP.81, forged the equivalent of 315 of our suns each year in an era when star formation was at its maximum in the universe.

It said that everything that happens in the cosmos at large — be it an apple falling from a tree on Earth or the distant whirling of a cluster of galaxies — happens because stuff follows invisible contortions in space and time that are caused by the presence of other stuff.

The study led by Donahue looked at far - ultraviolet light from a variety of massive elliptical galaxies found in the Cluster Lensing And Supernova Survey with Hubble (CLASH), which contains elliptical galaxies in the distant universe.

Many distant quasars — luminous galaxies, thought to be powered by large central black holes — are known to contain warm dust, which glows at infrared wavelengths.

Five distant galaxies so choked with dust that they are completely invisible at optical wavelengths have been spotted at submillimetre wavelengths by the European Space Agency's Herschel telescope.

Staring at a small patch of sky for more than 50 hours with the ultra-sensitive Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), astronomers have for the first time identified discrete sources that account for nearly all the radio waves coming from distant galaxies.

In a gravitational lens, the gravity of stars and other matter can bend the light of a much more distant star or galaxy, often fracturing it into several separate images (see image at right).

When it takes to the skies in 2001, it will train an infrared eye on interstellar clouds, the center of the Milky Way, planets in the solar system and distant galaxies — many of the same things that sirtf will look at a few years hence.

Lead researcher Dr David Clements, from the Department of Physics at Imperial College London, explains: «Although we're able to see individual galaxies that go further back in time, up to now, the most distant clusters found by astronomers date back to when the universe was 4.5 billion years old.

In 2007, François Hammer and his colleagues at the Paris Observatory in France compared Andromeda and our galaxy with a sample of more distant galaxies.

At first it looked like another ordinary long gamma - ray burst (GRB) in a distant galaxy.

«First look at birthplaces of most current stars: Highly sensitive images reveal details of distant galaxies.»

«From taking spectra of galaxies and quasars at the most distant parts of the universe to looking at comets in the outer parts of our own solar system, LBT will do a little bit of everything, and probably even things that we haven't thought of yet,» says LBT technical director John Hill.

The biggest appetites belong to quasars — supermassive black holes at the cores of distant galaxies.

Our hope is to find more objects like this, possibly even more distant ones, to better understand this population of extreme dusty galaxies and especially their relation to the bulk population of galaxies at this epoch,» said Joaquin Vieira, an assistant professor of astronomy at the University of Illinois at Urbana - Campaign and member of the SPT team whose study of SPT - discovered galaxies is funded through NSF's Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Grants program.

For instance, look at the recent use of the Cosmic Evolution Survey, using the Hubble Space Telescope to study gravitational lensings [in which the gravitational pull of galaxies and dark matter bends the light from more distant objects] in an area of the sky nine times the apparent surface area of the full moon.

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.

Only when we look at galaxies billions of light - years away, collecting the light they emitted billions of years ago, can we see that the most distant galaxies are moving more slowly than we would expect from observations of nearby galaxies, an indication that the universe has since sped up.

Hubble images showed, on the contrary, that quasars always occur at the cores of distant galaxies and derive their energy from material being sucked into black holes that lie even deeper within the galactic centers.

This next - generation sky survey helps scientists look at the structure of the galaxy and distant stars at low latitudes.

From the redshift we can calculate the galaxy's distance from us and it turned out to be, as we suspected, one of the most distant galaxies we know of to date,» explains Lise Christensen, an astrophysicist at the Dark Cosmology Centre at the Niels Bohr Institute.

They looked at 140,000 distant quasars, luminous regions in the center of massive galaxies, when the universe was only one - quarter of its present age.

Astronomers have watched stars orbit in the gravitational pull of the supermassive black hole at our galaxy's heart, and have found distant galaxies far beyond our own.

VLBA images detect orbital motion of two supermassive black holes as they circle each other at the center of a distant galaxy.

That means that if we were on those far distant galaxies — right this second — looking at Earth with a powerful telescope, we'd be watching the dinosaurs trample around our planet.