Sentences with phrase «dust lanes»
"Dust lanes" refers to streaks or bands of dust scattered in space, often seen in galaxies. Full definition
The infrared view (right) brings out the skeletal dust lanes where new stars can form.
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The infrared view brings out the galaxy's delicate dust lanes in yellow - green hues, and shows its warm dust glowing red.
«We see these twisting dust lanes connecting to the gas, and there's a mathematical model for how that material wraps around in the galaxy,» Keel said.
«We see these twisting dust lanes connecting to the gas, and there's a mathematical model for how that material wraps around in the galaxy,» Keel said in the statement.
NGC 4013, a spiral galaxy, which has a prominent dust lane like the Milky Way Galaxy, in an image taken by the Hubble Space Telescope.
A sea of young, blue stars is streaked with dark dust lanes and studded with bright pink patches that mark sites of star formation.
While the galaxy's outskirts appear smooth and featureless, a classic feature of an elliptical galaxy, its center displays remarkable dust lanes constrained within two symmetric spiral arms, which emerge from the galaxy's glowing core — one of the obvious features of a spiral galaxy.
The Lagoon Nebula's name becomes much clearer in a wider field view (opo0417i) when the broad, lagoon - shaped dust lane that crosses the glowing gas of the nebula can be made out.
As a true elliptical galaxy, M87 has no obvious dust lanes and very little evidence of star formation.
Fine details show throughout the galaxy's arms, disk, bulge, and nucleus - blue and red supergiant stars, star clusters, and star - forming regions, and dust lanes trace out fine structures in the disk and bar.
The prominent dust lane and halo of stars and globular clusters (globular clusters are the bright white spots) give this galaxy its name.
The bright gas and stars that make up these arms can be seen here glowing brightly, mottled by the dark dust lanes that trace across the galaxy.
The yellowish arc is the disk of the Milky Way, and the reddish - brown swirls are its dust lanes.
The dust lanes are like a rather open mesh veil that has been wrapped around the bright donut.
This image made from data obtained with the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the dust lanes and star clusters of this giant galaxy that give evidence that it was formed from a past merger of two gas - rich galaxies (Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)-RRB-
This interacting galaxy is being torn apart by a larger neighbour, but in the process, is showing bursts of star formation and dust lanes, and is an impressive object to image.
The dust lanes are faintly visible in places, but only where they can be seen in silhouette against background stars.