Sentences with phrase «distant galaxies in the universe»

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The discovery is promising for NASA's upcoming James Webb Space Telescope, which will launch in 2018 on a mission to study these embryonic galaxies from the universe's distant dawn in much more detail.

Spanish for «the fat one,» El Gordo is the most massive grouping of galaxies in the distant universe.

In the distant future, astronomers may mistakenly conclude that the entire universe consists of just a handful of galaxies in our local vicinity because all the distant galaxies are receding from us so fast that light can not reach uIn the distant future, astronomers may mistakenly conclude that the entire universe consists of just a handful of galaxies in our local vicinity because all the distant galaxies are receding from us so fast that light can not reach uin our local vicinity because all the distant galaxies are receding from us so fast that light can not reach us.

Some research has been done to deduce the chemical makeup of very early galaxies, based on observations of very bright, distant galaxies, or of very old stars that formed in the early universe and are still around today, Hewitt said.

Billions of years ago, a heatwave struck the universe, leaving its imprint in the light from distant galaxies.

Very distant galaxies have surprisingly little dark matter, the invisible stuff thought to make up the bulk of matter in the universe, new observations suggest.

«Dust is ubiquitous in nearby and more distant galaxies, but has, until recently, been very difficult to detect in the very early universe,» says University of Edinburgh astrophysicist Michal Michalowski, who was not involved in the study.

«The fact that we see young galaxies in the distant universe that have already shut down star formation is remarkable.»

When he examined galaxies in the distant early universe, astronomer Roberto Abraham of the University of Toronto found they were far more mature than expected.

The surface, a sweeping parabola of Euclidean purity, seems perfectly matched to its function: to peer from a tiny speck in the universe called Earth into an unimaginably distant past when vast galaxies were still forming.

The distant galaxy, known as SDP.81, forged the equivalent of 315 of our suns each year in an era when star formation was at its maximum in the universe.

The study led by Donahue looked at far - ultraviolet light from a variety of massive elliptical galaxies found in the Cluster Lensing And Supernova Survey with Hubble (CLASH), which contains elliptical galaxies in the distant universe.

«Tracing the cosmic web with star - forming galaxies in the distant universe.»

During its five - year primary mission, NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope has given astronomers an increasingly detailed portrait of the universe's most extraordinary phenomena, from giant black holes in the hearts of distant galaxies to thunderstorms on Earth.

In other words, the contribution of star - forming galaxies to the cosmic web is more prominent in the distant universIn other words, the contribution of star - forming galaxies to the cosmic web is more prominent in the distant universin the distant universe.

Remarkably, the distribution of star - forming galaxies around a cluster of galaxies in the more distant universe (5 billion years ago) corresponds much more closely with the weak lensing map than a slice of the more nearby universe (3 billion years ago).

«It turns out that the contribution of star - forming galaxies as tracers of the mass distribution in the distant universe is not negligible,» said Dr. Utsumi.

Astronomers have discovered five full - sized galaxies in the extremely distant — and therefore extremely young — universe.

Lead researcher Dr David Clements, from the Department of Physics at Imperial College London, explains: «Although we're able to see individual galaxies that go further back in time, up to now, the most distant clusters found by astronomers date back to when the universe was 4.5 billion years old.

Much as a teacher would be amazed to enter a preschool classroom full of college - age students, astronomers were thrown for a loop when they found fully formed galaxies in a distant corner of the universe they thought was populated with relatively small, ragged gatherings of stars.

«From taking spectra of galaxies and quasars at the most distant parts of the universe to looking at comets in the outer parts of our own solar system, LBT will do a little bit of everything, and probably even things that we haven't thought of yet,» says LBT technical director John Hill.

BOSS employs both galaxies and distant quasars to measure baryon acoustic oscillations (BAO), a signature imprint in the way matter is distributed, resulting from conditions in the early universe.

Two blobs spotted in the distant, ancient universe may be the seeds of the supermassive black holes that now dominate the core of every galaxy.

2001: Dark Energy Hubble data on stellar explosions in distant galaxies gave astronomers their best measurement of how fast the universe is expanding.

But a few years later, when Edwin Hubble's analysis of light from distant galaxies confirmed the universe's expansion, Einstein gave in.

They looked at 140,000 distant quasars, luminous regions in the center of massive galaxies, when the universe was only one - quarter of its present age.

Now the researchers hope that future observations of a large number of distant galaxies using the ALMA telescopes could help unravel how frequently such evolved galaxies occur in this very early epoch of the history of the universe.

These previously unseen distant galaxies and others like them are so numerous that they are likely producing the majority of stars formed in the early universe.

Researchers were able to confirm characteristics of the Little Cub galaxy using Keck Observatory's Low Resolution Imaging Spectrograph, a faint - light instrument capable of taking spectra and images of the most distant known objects in the universe.

«It has mapped the dust in three dimensions in our galaxy and found new streams of stars; and it has found new kinds of exploding stars and distant quasars in the early universe.»

Science Interests Formation of galaxies and black holes in the early universe and their growth over cosmic time; large surveys with Hubble and other telescopes to discover new populations of distant galaxies and black holes; physical properties of active galactic nuclei using observations from radio, infrared, optical, ultraviolet through to X-ray energies.

It records the spectra of up to 50 objects simultaneously, especially useful for studies of galaxies in the most distant reaches, and earliest times, of the universe.

LRIS also records the spectra of up to 50 objects simultaneously, especially useful for studies of clusters of galaxies in the most distant reaches, and earliest times, of the universe.

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes discovered swarms of similar quasars hiding in dusty galaxies in the distant universe.

This meeting brings together scientists from across Europe, whose aim is to detect the gravitational wave signature from interacting supermassive black holes in distant, merging galaxies in the early universe.

Unexpectedly faint Type 1a supernovae in distant galaxies led to the 1998 discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe, on account of dark energy.

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.

By studying the statistical properties of the shapes of very distant galaxies and quasars, astronomers can use the effects of weak lensing to study the distribution of dark matter in the universe.

The light from the most distant quasars are from a time in the universe before most of the galaxies had formed, so fewer quasars could be created.

«Even though the Large Magellanic Cloud is one of our nearest galactic companions, we expect it should share some uncanny chemical similarity with distant, young galaxies from the early universe,» said Marta Sewiło, an astronomer with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, this photo provided the sharpest and most distant view of galaxies in the universe.

Although the emission frequency of the more distant objects becomes lower due to the expansion of the universe, the ALMA Telescope is designed to receive millimeter waves in a frequency range lower than submillimeter waves observed this time, which means this identification method can be applied to objects even 10 billion light years away and will be a competent observation method in the ALMA Era when there will be a dramatic advancement in the research of distant galaxies.

Also, the Hubble Space Telescope has found distant galaxies too old (based on big bang assumptions) to fit in a younger universe.3

Galaxy clusters enable us to see fainter light from galaxies in the distant universe.

The famous telescope was named after U.S. astronomer Edwin Hubble, whose observations of variable stars in distant galaxies confirmed that the universe was expanding and gave support to the Big Bang theory.

As Webb observes light that's traveled from the far reaches of the cosmos, it captures images of distant stars and forming galaxies as they were in the earliest stages of the universe.

Some of the new results included deeper understandings of galaxies in the distant universe, more complete pictures of the massive galaxy clusters, and the searches for exploding massive stars, called supernovae.

Gravitational lensing probes the distribution of matter in galaxies and clusters of galaxies, as well as enables observations of the distant universe.

They are some of the most distant objects discovered in the observable universe, making them key to understanding the formation of the cosmos we inhabit — especially the early stages when the first stars and galaxies burst into existence.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Three billion years ago in a distant galaxy, two massive black holes slammed together, merged into one and sent space — time vibrations, known as gravitational waves, shooting out into the universe.