Sentences with phrase «distant galaxies show»

Pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope of very distant galaxies show more distorted shapes, bent spiral arms, and irregular fragments than in nearby galaxies (seen in a more recent stage of their evolution).

An analysis of the distant galaxy shows that it measures merely 850 light - years across, 500 times smaller than the Milky Way, and is estimated to have a mass of only 40 million suns.

Not exact matches

Chemical calculations show that helium hydride should be visible in clouds around distant galaxies and supernovas, or even in modern planetary nebulas (shells of gas expelled by aged, sunlike stars).

GALACTIC QUARTET The way invisible dark matter warped the light from distant galaxies, shown here as the swirl of material surrounding four giant galaxies in cluster Abell 3827 (seen in this Hubble Space Telescope photograph), suggested that dark matter can separate from stars when galaxies collide.

Recent evidence showed they are enormous explosions in distant galaxies, but no one knew what was exploding.

«Usually distant galaxies do not change significantly over an astronomer's lifetime, i.e. on a timescale of years or decades,» explains Andrea Merloni, «but this one showed a dramatic variation of its spectrum, as if the central black hole had switched on and off.»

This view shows how the new MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope gives a innovative three - dimensional depiction of a distant galaxy.

Acting as a «natural telescope» in space, the gravity of the extremely massive foreground galaxy cluster MACS J2129 - 0741 magnifies, brightens, and distorts the far - distant background galaxy MACS2129 - 1, shown in the top box.

Looking at a distant galaxy: the radio chart (left) shows the image of the blazar PKS 1830 - 211 distorted by the gravitational lens effect.

New research by Harvard astronomers Peter Williams and Edo Berger shows that the radio emission believed to be an afterglow actually originated from a distant galaxy's core and was unassociated with the fast radio burst.

These computer simulations of a spiral galaxy show that the proposed High Definition Space Telescope would provide sharper images of distant objects than the existing Hubble telescope (left).

That seemed improbable until observations of distant supernovae showed that galaxies are not only moving away from each other, but accelerating.

«We showed that it may be fairly common for groups of stars in the disk to be relocated to more distant realms within the Milky Way — having been «kicked out» by an invading satellite galaxy.

Hubble images showed, on the contrary, that quasars always occur at the cores of distant galaxies and derive their energy from material being sucked into black holes that lie even deeper within the galactic centers.

Also, nearer galaxies should show much more «wrap» than more distant spiral galaxies.

This new NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the galaxy IC 335 in front of a backdrop of distant galaxies.

Capable of observing the Universe by detecting light that is invisible to the human eye, ALMA will show us never - before - seen details of the birth of stars, infant galaxies in the early Universe, and planets coalescing around distant suns.

The image, which shows gas, dust and stars spread across the sky in a disorderly and irregular jumble, also reveals several other, far more distant galaxies that appear as fuzzy shapes in the background.

These new studies of galaxy HATLAS J142935.3 - 002836 have shown that this complex and distant object looks surprisingly like the comparatively nearby pair of colliding galaxies collectively known as the Antennae.

This NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the galaxy IC 335 in front of a backdrop of distant galaxies.

where are the observations that show distant galaxies shrinking in our fireld of view which must be the case if they are moving away from us at near light speed?