Sentences with phrase «classifying galaxy shapes»
She found the blob as she was classifying galaxy shapes from astronomical images as part of the online Galaxy Zoo project, which aims to harness the power of volunteers to answer cosmological questions.
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In 1936, Edwin Hubble classified galaxy shapes in the Hubble Sequence.
Not exact matches
NGC 6822, about 1.6 million light - years away, is classified as an irregular dwarf galaxy because of its odd shape and relatively small size compared with other galaxies, such as our own, the Milky Way, and its other neighbors, the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies.
Galaxies are classified or grouped by their shape.
Astronomers classify systems like this as «peculiar galaxies» because some sort of interaction has caused a weird trait, like extra dust or a strange shape.