Sentences with phrase «disk of the galaxy»

At dozens of points throughout the outer disk of the galaxy, we see knots of light representing the emission glow from enormous clouds of hydrogen gas.

A secondary component (as much as one - sixth of the total dark matter) might be able to interact, collapse and form a hidden, dark disk within the visible disk of our galaxy; the theorists therefore call it «double disk» dark matter.

They might also determine if star formation processes in the bulge billions of years ago were different from what's seen in the younger disk of our galaxy.

Astronomers using the Keck Observatory have discovered that certain groups of stars were kicked out from the flat disk of our galaxy.

The team used 18 quasars residing far behind Andromeda to probe how material is distributed well beyond the visible disk of the galaxy.

Among the biggest obstacles to our knowledge is the disk of the galaxy itself, particularly its center, which is thick with starlight - absorbing dust and rife with energetic astrophysical outbursts that can ruin delicate observations.

Over a fifth of the universe is hidden from view, blocked by dust and stars in the disk of our galaxy.

The most recent addition to the tour, discovered just last year, involves what appears to be a giant plume of antimatter — a fountain of particles identical to ordinary matter except that they have the opposite electric charge — shooting up from the core and straight out of the disk of the galaxy as far as 5,000 light - years, where the antimatter jet meets clouds of ordinary matter, and both are annihilated in a burst of energy.

Yusef - Zadeh and his team used ALMA to confirm that the masses and momentum transfer rates — the ability of the protostar jets to plow through surrounding interstellar material — are consistent with young protostars found throughout the disk of our galaxy.

Here too the field lines get stretched out and wrapped around the black hole into a field that lies within the disk of the galaxy.

Astronomers used Hubble's infrared vision to pierce through the dust in the disk of our galaxy that obscures the star cluster.

In this image, blue and green correspond to colors that can be seen by the human eye, such as hot, young, blue stars and the glow of Sun - like stars in the disks of galaxies.

Open clusters are located in the spiral arms or the disks of galaxies.

These bubbles indicate that much of the gas that was originally in the disk of the galaxy has been heated to millions of degrees and ejected into the outer regions by the jets from the black hole.

Thus, it is not surprising to find counter-rotation in a protostellar disk since the phenomenon has been previously reported in the disks of galaxies,» Hollis said.

They are created by dust clouds in the disk of the galaxy that obscure the distant stars.

Researchers think that these jets strike the disk of the galaxy and generate shock waves.

Like most spiral galaxies, the disk of this galaxy filled is with dark clouds of dust.

We detect MIR and FIR emission in the regions far away from the disk of the galaxy, reflecting the presence of dust and PAHs in the halo of M82.