Sentences with phrase «bright galaxies containing»
The most intense bursts of starbirth are thought to have taken place in the early Universe in massive, bright galaxies containing lots of cosmic dust.
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This plot reveals that not all the starlight is contained within the cities of stars — the galaxies — which appear as bright blue - white blobs.
In addition to the bright and chaotic features, each merging galaxy of NGC 5256 contains an active galactic nucleus, where gas and other debris are fed into a hungry supermassive black hole.
Such clusters have very dense cores, each containing a massive galaxy called the «brightest cluster galaxy» (BCG).
But light from nearby bright stars can drown out dimmer galaxies like the 72 new ones, none of which contain stars Hubble can see.
M82 (left) is a very famous example of a starburst galaxy - it contains a lot of young, bright stars probably because a close encounter with its more massive neighbour M81 has triggered a lot of new star formation.
The resulting explosions are the brightest events in the universe and vastly outshine entire galaxies containing hundreds of billions of stars.
It is an obvious group of galaxies because it contains several of the brightest galaxies in the sky (although they are all too faint to be seen with the naked eye).
This young cluster of about 3,000 stars in our Milky Way is called Westerlund 2 and contains some of the galaxy's hottest, brightest, and most massive stars.
«Like the dark skies of rural Northumberland, each school in the Haydon Bridge and Hexham Partnerships contain a galaxy of the brightest stars — our children.