Sentences with phrase «by known galaxies»

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I know that he must think he's doing the right thing by taking himself out of the equation, and that means he thinks the best thing for the galaxy is that he's not a part of this and, by extension, that the Jedi are not a part of this.

Everything single galaxy, star (sun) and planet, in the universe have been formed by gravity over billions of years, NO god needed.

It would be otiose to give examples: a distant thunder is in the past as much as a distant star; but no matter how far in time - space a star or galaxy is, it is always faintly immanent in my Here - Now even when its action is below the threshold of human perception; its action can be made visible by a combination of lenses or a prolonged photographic exposure.

The supernova, known as SN1987A, was first seen by observers in the Southern Hemisphere in 1987 when a giant star suddenly exploded at the edge of a nearby dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.

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Signs indicate that they, like the objects found by the same team earlier this year, are likely dwarf satellite galaxies, the smallest and closest known form of galaxies.

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The X-ray source containing this force - fed black hole, known by its abbreviated name of XJ1500 +0154, is located in a small galaxy about 1.8 billion light years from Earth.

The other method, practised by Riess and his colleagues, measures how distant galaxies appear to recede from us as the universe expands, using stars and supernovae of known brightness to gauge the distance to those galaxies.

By supplementing the missing star - forming material, the approved ALMA Large Program will complete our view of the well - known galaxies in the iconic HUDF.

Discovered by Impey and his colleagues in 1986, it is the most massive spiral galaxy known, about 20 times more massive than the Milky Way.

However, through the phenomenon known as «gravitational lensing,» a massive, foreground cluster of galaxies acts as a natural «zoom lens» in space by magnifying and stretching images of far more distant background galaxies.

We however do not yet know whether galaxy mergers are also responsible for these, or whether they are formed by cold gas gradually falling into the galaxy.

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.

A new Hubble image shows that the spiral known as ESO 510 - 13 is beautifully warped, probably by an encounter with another galaxy.

A striking image presented here 3 June at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society shows a globular cluster known as Palomar 5 being torn asunder by tidal forces of our home galaxy.

«High - energy neutrinos are produced along with gamma rays by extremely high - energy radiation known as cosmic rays in objects like star - forming galaxies, galaxy clusters, supermassive black holes, or gamma - ray bursts.

The Milky Way Has a Posse Astronomers have known since the 1920s that our galaxy, the Milky Way, is surrounded by smaller collections of stars, essentially dwarf galaxies.

A team of astronomers has doubled the number of known young, compact radio galaxies — galaxies powered by newly energized black holes.

The distance to quasars, as well as to most galaxies, is established by measuring a change in their light known as a redshift.

Compact elliptical galaxies form a rare class of stellar system (~ 30 presently known) characterized by high stellar densities and small sizes and often harboring metal - rich stars.

The Milky Way is surrounded by 23 so - called dwarf galaxies that are the least luminous galaxies known.

The telescope has helped researchers detect such clusters by exploiting a phenomenon known as the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect, which causes massive galaxy clusters to leave an impression on the cosmic microwave background: a faint, universe - spanning glow of light left over from the big bang.

Of sixteen sources identified by the researchers, most were confirmed as single, nearby galaxies that were already known.

These rare systems — only a few tens were known until recently — were thought to have had their outer coats of stars ripped away by the gravity of other, larger galaxies as they passed nearby, a theory supported by the fact that they were usually found in the centers of large clusters of galaxies.

Another experiment there, the South Pole Telescope, reported finding B - mode polarization last year, although the signal it saw was at a different angular scale across the sky and was clearly due to the known process of gravitational lensing (a warping of light caused by massive objects) of the CMB by large galaxies, rather than the primordial gravitational waves seen here.

Observations by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken advantage of gravitational lensing to reveal the largest sample of the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the Universe.

The beautiful spiral galaxy visible in the center of the image is known as RX J1140.1 +0307, a galaxy in the Virgo constellation imaged by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

The galaxies that Marrone and his team studied, collectively known as SPT0311 - 58, were originally identified as a single luminous source by the 10 - meter South Pole Telescope (SPT) survey.

A galaxy, no matter how small, must be massive enough to hold on to elements heavier than iron, which are released by supernovae.

The beautiful spiral galaxy visible in the center of the image is known as RX J1140.1 +0307, a galaxy in the Virgo constellation imaged by the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope, and it presents an interesting puzzle.

«While studying the supernova, we realised that the galaxy in which it exploded is already known to be a galaxy that is being lensed by the cluster,» explains Steve Rodney, co-author, from the University of South Carolina.

By cross-correlating large - scale surveys of galaxies and observations of how galaxies distort background light in a relativistic process known as weak lensing, Ferreira says, the true nature of mass and the forces acting on it can be tested.

Quasars are believed to be powered by accretion of material onto supermassive black holes in the nuclei of distant galaxies, making these luminous versions of the general class of objects known as active galaxies.

Astronomers speculated that the glow was caused by irradiation from a neighboring galaxy known as IC 2497.

Zemcov et al. sent up a rocket to measure the fluctuations in this faint background and found largescale fluctuations greater than known galaxies alone should produce (see the Perspective by Moseley).

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.

It is a Seyfert galaxy that is dominated by something known as an Active Galactic Nucleus — its core is thought to contain a supermassive black hole that is emitting huge amounts of radiation, pouring energetic X-rays out into the universe.

Maunakea, Hawaii — An international team of researchers led by Pieter van Dokkum at Yale University have used the W. M. Keck Observatory to confirm the existence of the most diffuse class of galaxies known in the universe.

This dip is known as a «transit» and Kepler has revolutionized our understanding about planets orbiting other stars in our galaxy by applying this effective technique.

The scientists used the fact that images of faraway galaxies get slightly distorted by the gravity of galaxies in the foreground — an effect known as weak gravitational lensing.

This object was certainly known to medevial Persian astronomers before 905 A.D., and cataloged and described by Persian astronomer Al Sufi in 964 A.D.. All other galaxies have been discovered only after the invention of the telescope: The Triangulum Galaxy M33 was first seen by Italian Priest astronomer G.B. Hodierna before 1654.

Kamuela, Hawaii — The least massive galaxy in the known universe has been measured by UC Irvine scientists, clocking in at just 1,000 or so stars with a bit of dark matter holding them together.The... Read more»

The central part of the galaxy M77, also known as NGC1068, observed by ALMA and the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

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.

Studying the effect of dark energy on large - scale structure involves measuring subtle distortions in the shapes of galaxies arising from the bending of space by intervening matter, a phenomenon known as «weak lensing.»

The first known galaxies were longly known before their nature as «island universes» came to light - this fact was finally proven only in 1923 by Edwin Powell Hubble, when he found Cepheid variable stars in the Andromeda Galaxy M31.

NASA said the background galaxy has been magnified, distorted and multiply imaged by the gravity of the galaxy cluster in a process known as gravitational lensing.

In fact, many of the things we know about the nature of galaxies like the Milky Way were learned by studying Andromeda, since the overall features of our own galaxy are disguised by our internal vantage point.

A huge amount of molecular gas (the fuel for star formation) was detected in a monster galaxy dating back 8.8 billion years by the RAINBOW Interferometer at No...