Sentences with phrase «by a galaxy grouping»

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those stars you see, the light takes hundreds of thousands of years to reach us, and when you see that light from them, you are seeing what they looked like thousands of years ago when that group of photons was thrust out by that star / galaxy, which than takes several light years to reach us, which also means you are looking at the past, thousands and hundreds of thousand of years into the past!

Instead, van Dokkum found his galaxies by grouping eight 400 - millimeter lenses into a contraption resembling an insect's compound eye.

Now a group of astronomers led by Asa Bluck of the University of Victoria in Canada have found a (relatively) simple relationship between the colour of a galaxy and the size of its bulge: the more massive the bulge the redder the galaxy.

MOST stars are gregarious, grouping together by the billions in galaxies like our Milky Way.

They appear to be caused by mysterious events beyond our Milky Way Galaxy, and possibly even beyond the Local Group of galaxies that includes the Milky Way.

Most of the universes» galaxies, which each contain billions of stars, are surrounded by up to several thousands of so - called globular clusters, groups of up to a million suns packed into dense spheres by gravity.

To locate the source, a group directed by Puget and David L. Clements in Paris has started the first far - infrared search for distant galaxies, using the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory (ISO).

Visible light (second inset) shows a vast, elliptical grouping of stars bisected by a dark lane of dust, which astronomers interpret as the remains of a spiral galaxy that collided with a larger elliptical galaxy.

The 2dF group aims to measure the speeds of 250,000 galaxies by the end of 2001, and the mass estimates will improve with more data, Dalton notes.

One, a group of Fermi researchers led by Johann Cohen - Tanugi of Montpellier University in France and Jan Conrad and Maja Llena Garde, both of Stockholm University in Sweden, looked at two years» worth of observations of 10 dwarf galaxies.

Among other things, the new map will help astronomers to understand and explain the motion of the Milky Way, which is apparently being tugged by the gravity of neighboring groups and clusters of galaxies, says 2MASS team member Karen Masters of the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, who presented the it here at the summer meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

Dynamical analysis for nonisolated galaxies demonstrates the feasibility of their ejection from host clusters and groups by three - body encounters, which is in agreement with numerical simulations.

Those remnants, which McConnachie calls «the partially digested remains of these dwarf galaxies,» take the form of large, diffuse streams of stars, former galactic groupings that have been pulled apart by the larger galaxy's gravitational pull.

Left, a group of galaxies mapped by KiDS.

An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a surprising discovery about the birthplace of groups of stars located in the halo of our Milky Way galaxy.

«We showed that it may be fairly common for groups of stars in the disk to be relocated to more distant realms within the Milky Way — having been «kicked out» by an invading satellite galaxy.

These «ultra-compact dwarf galaxies» are now the second and third ones known to house such gargantuan black holes, confirming that the first one — discovered by the same group in 2014 — was not an anomaly.

Maunakea, Hawaii — An international team of astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) has made a surprising discovery about the birthplace of groups of stars located in the halo of our Milky Way galaxy.

Holmberg II (right) is one of nine low - surface - brightness galaxies listed by Erik Holmberg in the 1950's, three of which are associated with the M81 group.

In 1986 a group of astronomers observing the motions of the Milky Way and neighbouring galaxies noted that the galaxies were moving toward the Hydra - Centaurus superclusters in the southern sky with velocities significantly different from those predicted by the expansion of the universe in accordance with the Hubble law (see Hubble's constant).

Galaxies are classified or grouped by their shape.

This discovery of this system is part of a large survey for quasar sightlines which pass near galaxies, which is coordinated by Joseph Hennawi, the leader of theENIGMA research group at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.

On the evening of July 3, 2014, both of the mighty 10 - meter Keck Observatory telescopes were steered by Dr. Andrea Ghez and her team of observers from the UCLA Galactic Center Group to study the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy.

This simulation shown here was run by the Making Galaxies in a Cosmological Context (MaGICC) project in the theory group at MPIA.

Since low - mass stars like GJ 1132 are among the most common in the galaxy and are known to host groups of small planets, the researchers said that they are encouraged by their discovery and the possibility that such worlds could maintain atmospheres despite the high levels of activity in and around such stars.

A lot of the galaxies in this group lie directly behind the plane of our galaxy and are hidden by all the intervening gas, dust and stars.

The grouping of these galaxies around the Milky Way Galaxy is mimicked in the case of the Andromeda Galaxy, which is also accompanied by several dwarf companions.

However, new work by astronomers at the University of Sheffield has discovered an incident of a star being destroyed by a supermassive black hole in a much smaller sample size — a group of just 15 galaxies.

The Milky Way system is near one end of the volume of space occupied by the Local Group, and the great Andromeda galaxy (M31) is near the other end, about 2,000,000 light - years away.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A group of researchers, led by a University of California, Riverside graduate student, observed distant galaxies with the MOSFIRE high - resolution near - infrared spectrometer at W. M. Keck Observatory and their results will help to build the foundations of galaxy evolution studies by predicting the star - formation rate of distant galaxies from the light they emit.

This cluster completely dominates our tiny corner of the Universe, and even our Local Group of galaxies is being gravitationally pulled by this cluster.

Examples of science projects enabled by the data in the High - Latitude Survey include: mapping the formation of cosmic structure in the first billion years after the Big Bang via the detection and characterization of over 10,000 galaxies at z > 8; finding over 2,000 QSOs at z > 7; quantifying the distribution of dark matter on intermediate and large scales through lensing in clusters and in the field; identifying the most extreme star - forming galaxies and shock - dominated systems at 1 < z < 2; carrying out a complete census of star - forming galaxies and the faint end of the QSO luminosity function at z ~ 2, including their contribution to the ionizing radiation; and determining the kinematics of stellar streams in the Local Group through proper motions.

An international group of scientists led by German Hans - Walter Rix from the Max - Planck - Institut fur Astronomie in Heidelberg is studying 24 nearby disk galaxies, similar to our own Milky Way, using the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

Some of these galaxies still have uncertain distances, especially the Maffei group galaxies and also some galaxies in the far southern hemisphere which can not be seen by Russian telescopes.

The Sculptor group is the nearest group of galaxies to the Local Group and is dominated by five galaxies, four spiral - NGC 247, 253, 300 and 7793 and one irregular - NGgroup is the nearest group of galaxies to the Local Group and is dominated by five galaxies, four spiral - NGC 247, 253, 300 and 7793 and one irregular - NGgroup of galaxies to the Local Group and is dominated by five galaxies, four spiral - NGC 247, 253, 300 and 7793 and one irregular - NGGroup and is dominated by five galaxies, four spiral - NGC 247, 253, 300 and 7793 and one irregular - NGC 55.

In the paper, the group of researchers, led by Irene Shivaei, observed 17 bright distant galaxies with the MOSFIRE high - resolution near - infrared spectrometer at the W. M. Keck Observatory telescopes.

The as - yet untitled Star Wars standalone movie, heavily rumoured to follow a group of bounty hunters around the galaxy, has been gaining traction of late; Gary Whitta, the movie's original writer, left the project, while Simon Kinberg (X-Men: Days of Future Past, Star Wars Rebels) has joined The Empire Strikes Back scribe Lawrence Kasdan for the second standalone film, which will be directed by Josh Trank (Chronicle).

She is joined by a pair of Force - sensitive monks (Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen) and a sarcastic reprogrammed Imperial robot, K - 2SO (Alan Tudyk), as this motley group tries to verify the message and potentially work even at odds with the Rebel Alliance to save the galaxy from tyranny.

Then I discovered Dust a FREE FPS, sure it was rough around the edges during beta and before the Uprising update, but a game that's more in depth, that rewards you for being more tactical than foolish and also lets you drive tanks, pilot drop ships or call in bombardments from space... all in the context of an ever changing galaxy with planets up for grabs by groups of players known as corporations.

Take part on your mobile device and decide the fate of the galaxy's bumbling defenders by voting on each crucial decision as a group, for better or worse.

A new group show at Kopeikin Gallery organized by Katie Shapiro and Sean Higgins explores the idea of the «transporter» as used in science fiction — the object or device that allow people to travel from one side of the galaxy to the other.

This image made by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows part of a group of five galaxies known as Stephan's Quintet.

While large Beltway environmental groups support it, a galaxy of smaller ones say the House bill has been mortally weakened by giveaways just getting out of its first committee.