Sentences with phrase «create giant galaxies»
Both satellite galaxies resemble the ones that smashed together long ago to create giant galaxies like our own, so the discovery helps illuminate how such galactic building blocks formed and evolved.
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Note the small, thin «tadpole» and «chain» galaxies that are merging together to create a giant galaxy.
Not exact matches
Powerful radio jets from the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy are creating giant radio bubbles (blue) in the ionized gas surrounding the galaxy.
When observing a distant galaxy, for example, massive objects between Earth and the galaxy act like a giant lens and bend the galaxy's light, creating multiple images of the single galaxy.
In this full - sky image, created with data from the new Planck space telescope, red and orange areas represent primordial lumps that gave rise to giant clusters of galaxies.
Our Milky Way, a giant barred spiral galaxy, creates stars both large and small, and astronomers had assumed other galaxies did the same.
The third possibility is that the cold gas fueling the chain of star formation originates from a high - temperature shock wave created when the two giant elliptical galaxies crash together.