Sentences with phrase «distant galaxy ever»

Astronomers have seen the most distant galaxy ever as more than just a red dot.

These observations confirmed it to be the most distant galaxy ever measured, setting a new record.

Pasadena, CA — With the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes, as well as a cosmic magnification effect, a team of astronomers, including Carnegie's Daniel Kelson, have spotted what could be the most distant galaxy ever seen.

The Hubble Space Telescope's «Ultra Deep Field» reveals about 10,000 objects in a tiny patch of sky, including some of the most distant galaxies ever seen.

«It is the first time dust has been discovered in one of the most distant galaxies ever observed — only 700 million years after the Big Bang.

Instead of conducting a narrow and deep study of a small area of the sky, the team broadened their scope to produce the widest survey of very distant galaxies ever attempted.

The telescope will also be sued to scout the sky for the earliest, most distant galaxies ever detected in an attempt to resolve unanswered questions on the origins of the Universe.

Not exact matches

Looking at random parts of the sky with Hubble, astronomers have found what appears to be the most distant protocluster ever seen: five galaxies in the process of growth, forming a cosmic collection that may grow into a massive cluster.

Clues to what our Galaxy, the Milky Way, was like in its infancy may come from a newly discovered «normal» (radio - quiet) galaxy, the most distant of its kind ever seen.

The new discovery is one of the only known cases of a wet merger at the core of a galaxy cluster, and the most distant example ever found.

In fact, two of these galaxies are the most distant of their kind ever seen — so distant that their light began its journey when the Universe was only one billion years old.

«This galaxy is the most distant object we have ever observed with high confidence,» said lead author Wei Zheng of Johns Hopkins University.

Hundreds of scientists from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey III (SDSS - III) collaborated to make the largest - ever, three - dimensional map of distant galaxies.

Two of these galaxies are the most distant of their kind ever seen — so distant that their light began its journey when the Universe was only one billion years old.

As well as keeping an eye out for solar flares, it will also be looking well past the Sun to gain a better grasp of the earliest, most distant galaxies we have ever observed to give astronomers a better idea of what happened in the very early days of our Universe, and perhaps shed light on how the relationship between gravity and dark matter evolved.

With only a relatively minor change to the observing strategy, taking extra care to avoid extra glare from bright foreground light from the Earth, we enabled the Frontier Fields to see ever fainter and more distant galaxies than otherwise would have been possible.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — The international University of California, Riverside - led SpARCS collaboration has discovered four of the most distant clusters of galaxies ever found, as they appeared when the... Read more»

If you think of peering into the depths of the universe as like looking down from the hundredth floor of the Empire State Building (with the hundredth floor representing now and street level representing the moment of the Big Bang), at the time of Wilson and Penzias's discovery the most distant galaxies anyone had ever detected were on about the sixtieth floor, and the most distant things — quasars — were on about the twentieth.