Sentences with phrase «by early star formation»
The dwarf galaxy also is of interest because it provides clues to how the early simple universe became re-ionized by early star formation, moving it from the so - called cosmic Dark Ages of neutral gases to the development of the complexly structured universe now in existence, where the gas between galaxies is ionized.
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«That would mean that this is a really rare system at an early stage of formation,» said Binder, «and we could learn a lot about how massive stars form and die by continuing to study this unique pairing.»
In the early stages of their formation, stars are surrounded by rotating disks of gas and dust.
They say the number of stars in a system is determined during the earliest stage of star formation but critical processes occurring then are usually hidden by dense clouds of dust and gas.
Scientists believe that gas and dust may have been stripped by nearby galaxies or from an early burst of star formation that used up all the gas.
These lightweight nuclei are probably produced by the breakdown, or spallation, of heavier elements, such as iron and magnesium, by high - energy particles in stellar atmospheres or in the early stages of star formation.
By developing and bringing to bear innovative spectroscopic and high resolution imaging instruments on large ground - based telescopes and space telescopes, he and his team have been studying massive black holes in the centers of galaxies (including our own), galactic star formation over cosmic time, and the evolution of galaxies in the Early Universe.