Sentences with phrase «discovered ancient galaxies»
Astronomers are now using the largest existing telescopes on the ground and in space to better assess the composition, size and shape of the newly discovered ancient galaxies.
The astronomers had expected to find a number of ancientgalaxies known as ellipticals, but instead discovered that, out of the 800,000 sample galaxies included in the study, 53 of the brightest examples were in fact spiral - shaped.