Sentences with phrase «by millions of light years»

Galaxies are large systems of stars and interstellar matter, typically containing several million to some trillion stars, of masses between several million and several trillion times that of our Sun, of an extension of a few thousands to several 100,000 s light years, typically separated by millions of light years distance.

You probably get the idea at this point, but just to hammer it home: On average, galaxies are separated by millions of light years — and the latest estimates put the number of galaxies in the universe at around 500 billion.

Not exact matches

It's the light that was formed in the center of the Sun a coupla» million years ago, that you are seeing by today

Is earth, like a garden used by intelligent beings, millions of light years away?

This «hole in space» is a 300 million light year gap in the distribution of galaxies, has taken cosmologists by surprise, not because it exists, but because it is so big.

Whether the stars are as near as they seemed to the Psalmist or are removed by the millions and billions of light years to which we must accustom our imagination, still the question is the same: «When I look at thy heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars which thou hast established; what is man that thou art mindful of him, and the son of man that thou dost care for him?»

They are measured by the variation in brightness to the time allowed between each change, This measures the distance to objects 10s of millions of light years across.

Several years laterLorillard spent the balance of $ 2 million building a golf course, a racetrackand a mile - long toboggan slide lit by electricity.

This baby projector produces a light display inspired by the Aurora Borealis which millions of people go witness in the Northern Hemisphere every year.

Heathrow Express workers: # 700 Network Rail: # 500 Docklands Light Railway: # 900 Virgin Rail: # 500 London Overground: # 600 London Underground: At least # 850 BAA staff: up to # 1,200 London Underground maintenance workers at Tube Lines: # 850 London Overground maintenance workers employed by Bombardier: # 650 Workers at the mayor of London's bike scheme: # 500 The latest TfL accounts for the full financial year 2011/12 show a budget surplus of # 759 million.

Bharara wants Silver, 72, to forfeit the $ 5.2 million he pocketed in the scheme and cough up «a substantial fine of at least $ 1 million is appropriate in this case, particularly in light of the defendant's significant remaining resources and his more than $ 70,000 - per - year pension, paid for by New York State taxpayers.»

On Sept. 20, 2016, Buso of Rosario, Argentina, was testing a new camera on his 16 - inch telescope by taking a series of short - exposure photographs of the spiral galaxy NGC 613, which is about 80 million light years from Earth and located within the southern constellation Sculptor.

An international team of astronomers has determined that Centaurus A, a massive elliptical galaxy 13 million light - years from Earth, is accompanied by a number of dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting the main body in a narrow disk.

In a recent paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, Boorman (and colleagues from the NuSTAR active galaxies science team) described how data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has been used to study the intrinsic behaviour of a «hidden» supermassive black hole in a galaxy nearby to our own — IC 3639 — some 175 million light years from Earth, relatively close by in cosmic terms.

Now, astronomers have overcome that problem by tracking bright spots of radio emission from the Triangulum Galaxy — also known as M33 — which the new study locates at 2.4 million light years from Earth.

As detailed by Evan Keane of the international Square Kilometer Array Organization and colleagues, this separate study suggested some fraction of FRBs occur billions rather than millions of light - years away.

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Using the world's largest radio telescope, two astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have detected the faint signal emitted by atomic hydrogen gas in galaxies three billion light years from Earth, breaking the previous record distance by 500 million light years.

Around spinning black holes, however, frame dragging could be hugely important: By whipping magnetic field lines through the electrically charged gas around the holes, it could convert them into electromagnetic generators, which would explain how they spew jets of energetic particles millions of light - years into space.

When you see Jupiter shining in the night sky, for example, you're looking about an hour back in time, whereas the light from distant galaxies captured by telescopes today was emitted millions of years ago.

The star got too close to its galaxy's central black hole about 290 million years ago, and collisions among its torn - apart pieces caused an eruption of optical, ultraviolet and X-ray light that was first spotted by scientists in 2014.

Supernova measurements indicate that distant galaxies are separating from one another by 73 kilometers per second for each megaparsec (about 3.3 million light - years) of distance between them.

By piecing together clues from a fossil unearthed in a former German quarry, a team of scientists has figured out how light bounced off a moth that lived 47 million years ago.

A map of the dust in M82, 11.4 million light years away, was created by measuring how long it took for these light echoes to reach Earth.

Visualizations of the simulated distributions of gas and stars in the Universe from data provided by Cosmowebportal: The cube represents a space section of the Universe (more than 300 million light years), the bright spots on the cube faces show galaxies and galaxy clusters along the cosmic web.

By studying far - flung galaxy clusters, astronomers are able to look back in time at the state of those objects millions or even billions of years ago, when the light just now reaching us was emitted.

By studying the neutrinos that IceCube detects, scientists can learn about the nature of astrophysical phenomena occurring millions, or even billions of light years from Earth, Sullivan said.

«This means if we look back to the universe when it was less than a quarter of its present age, we'd see that a pair of galaxies separated by a million light years would be drifting apart at a velocity of 68 kilometers a second as the universe expands,» says Font - Ribera, a postdoctoral fellow in Berkeley Lab's Physics Division.

Only 55 million lightyears away, SN 2017cbv was one of the closest supernovae discovered in recent years, found by the DLT40 survey using the Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescope (PROMPT) in Chile, which monitors galaxies nightly at distances less than 40 megaparsecs (120 million light - years).

This summer, LeBourgeois launched a five - year, $ 2.5 million study funded by the National Institutes of Health, in which her research team goes into the homes of volunteer families, exposes children to varying intensities of light and collects saliva samples to measure changes in melatonin levels and the timing of the biological clock.

The MASSIVE Survey was funded in 2014 by the National Science Foundation to weigh the stars, dark matter and central black holes of the 100 most massive, nearby galaxies: those larger than 300 billion solar masses and within 350 million light - years of Earth, a region that contains millions of galaxies.

By comparison, typical clusters of galaxies can be nearly 10 million light - years across.

After accounting for the deflection of the cosmic rays by the Milky Way's magnetic field, the team found that the particles are travelling about 326 million light years from a region of extragalactic space containing several potential sources, such as active galactic nuclei and starburst galaxies.

As part of the first cache of papers, the international KiDS team of researchers, led by Koen Kuijken at the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands [3], has used this approach to analyse images of over two million galaxies, typically 5.5 billion light - years away [4].

A research team led by Shuro Takano at the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) and Taku Nakajima at Nagoya University observed the spiral galaxy M77 in the direction of the constellation Cetus (the Whale) about 47 million light years away with ALMA.

In the local Universe (which stretches out 380 million light years), such dusty starbursts appear to be formed by the collision of two galaxies, which powers the subsequent star genesis.

Eight bright X-ray sources located far beyond the galaxy at distances of hundreds of millions of light - years were observed with Chandra, which revealed that the X-rays from these distant sources are absorbed selectively by oxygen ions in the vicinity of our galaxy.

Hubble's latest discovery of 250 faint galaxies — formed 600 million to 900 million years after the Big Bang — in the early universe using three galaxy clusters to magnify the light given off by these distant objects.

«This FRB, like others detected, is thought to originate from outside of Earth's own Milky Way galaxy, which means their signal has travelled over many hundreds of millions of light years, through a medium that — while invisible to our eyes — can be turbulent and affected by magnetic fields,» Ryan Shannon from Australia's ICRAR - Curtin University, the co-lead author of a study detailing the observation, said in a statement.

By combining observational data from OGLE and Hubble, astronomers have been able to work out the nature of the star system, which is located around 8,000 light - years away, to great precision The star system consists of two red dwarfs orbiting one another only 7 million miles apart (as a comparison, this is only 14 times the Earth - moon distance).

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) of radio telescopes have discovered a cloud of gas apparently being struck by a jet of ultrafast particles powered by the energy of a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy 450 million light - years away.

Dubbed «CL J1001 +0220,» or «CL J1001» in short, the galaxy cluster is located about 11.1 billion light - years from Earth, pushing back the formation time of galaxy clusters — which consist of thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity — by about 700 million light - years, NASA said.

Dark matter constitutes the filaments — which researchers learned typically stretch and bend across hundreds of millions of light years — and the so - called halos that host clusters of galaxies are fed by the universal network of filaments.

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But ancient - DNA sequencing is beginning to shed some light on the issue.11 For example, by comparing a human HAR sequence with the HAR sequence of an archaic hominin, researchers can estimate if the HAR mutated before, after, or during the time period of our common ancestor.12 This approach has revealed that the rate at which HAR mutations emerged was slightly higher before we split from Neanderthals and Denisovans.3, 13 As a result, most HAR mutations are millions of years old and shared with these extinct hominins (but not with chimpanzees).

The existence of rods, cones and melanin pigments in the eye suggests that retinomotor activity (light dependent vision seen in fish today: daylight vision by cones and twilight vision by the more sensitive rods) probably already existed 300 million years ago.

Just a few days ago, the ESA released this Hubble image of a pair of barred spiral galaxies some 350 million light years away in the process of merging, their two galactic nuclei still separated by a massive distance but throwing out clouds of hot gas and mid-formation stars.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array of radio telescopes have discovered a cloud of gas apparently being struck by a jet of ultrafast particles powered by the energy of a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy 450 million light - years away.

In a separate observing program, a team led by Rich, and including Gebhardt and Luis Ho of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, found a 20,000 - solar - mass black hole in the giant globular cluster G1, located 70 times farther - 2.2 million light - years away - in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.

On Nov. 11, 2014, a global network of telescopes picked up signals from 300 million light - years away that were created by a tidal disruption flare — an explosion of electromagnetic energy that occurs when a black hole rips apart a passing star.