Sentences with phrase «distant galaxies passing»

Light from distant galaxies passing through those regions also gets warped, making the galaxies appear streaked and smeared in telescope images, a technique known as weak gravitational lensing.

Light from distant galaxies passing through those regions also gets warped, making the galaxies appear streaked and smeared in telescope images.

However, if the light from many distant galaxies passes through the stretched spacetime of a nearby galaxy cluster, then the mass of the galaxy cluster can be derived from a careful analysis of the ensemble of warped shapes and their orientations.

Not exact matches

If the light from a distant galaxy reaches us having passed through a cluster of say, four stars, she wondered, then how many images might we see?

Light is affected by gravity, and light passing a distant galaxy will be deflected as a result.

In addition to studying distant stars and galaxies, scientists use the Arecibo telescope to detect and track objects that pass close to Earth.

It is seen passing a much more distant spiral galaxy, called NGC 3726, which is about 55 million light - years from Earth, or 2 trillion times farther away than the comet.

Tadpoles are rare in the local Universe but common in the distant Universe, suggesting that many galaxies pass through a phase like this as they evolve (Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Elmegreen (Vassar College), B. Elmegreen (IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center), J. Almeida, C. Munoz - Tunon, and M. Filho (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias), J. Mendez - Abreu (University of St. Andrews), J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin - Madison), M. Rafelski (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), and D. Ceverino (Center for Astronomy at Heidelberg University)-RRB-

Through a series of collaged drawings, painted gestures and layers of atmospheric color that recall distant galaxies, this video animation ebbs and flows like the never - ending crowds that pass through the city and the bodies of water that surround it.