Sentences with phrase «dwarf galaxy called»

Applying this method to one recently discovered dwarf galaxy called Eridanus II, the scientists found a lot less dark matter in the center than many other models would have shown.

A dwarf galaxy called NGC 4625, located about 30 million light - years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs)

A dwarf galaxy called NGC 4625, located about 30 million light - years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs)(Credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA)

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, among others, have detected a stream of stars in one of the Andromeda Galaxy's outer satellite galaxies, a dwarf galaxy called Andromeda II.

The supernova, known as SN1987A, was first seen by observers in the Southern Hemisphere in 1987 when a giant star suddenly exploded at the edge of a nearby dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Not exact matches

The newcomer, called Kks3, is a tiny, isolated dwarf galaxy that sits almost 7 million light - years away in the constellation Hydrus.

These are so - called «ultra-faint dwarf galaxies.»

Ultra-compact dwarfs, highlighted here within the so - called Fornax galaxy cluster, are a type of small star system.

They realized it must be leftovers from a pulverized dwarf galaxy, which they called the Sagittarius dwarf.

The Milky Way is surrounded by 23 so - called dwarf galaxies that are the least luminous galaxies known.

Those remnants, which McConnachie calls «the partially digested remains of these dwarf galaxies,» take the form of large, diffuse streams of stars, former galactic groupings that have been pulled apart by the larger galaxy's gravitational pull.

The dwarf galaxy also is of interest because it provides clues to how the early simple universe became re-ionized by early star formation, moving it from the so - called cosmic Dark Ages of neutral gases to the development of the complexly structured universe now in existence, where the gas between galaxies is ionized.

However, most stars in the galaxy, around 75 %, are lower mass stars called red dwarfs, or M stars (See Figure 1).

The dwarf galaxy where this occurred is called Reticulum II.

But contained within these dead stars, called white dwarfs, is the early history of our galaxy, providing clues on how it came to be.

One long - standing astrophysical puzzle is that of so - called «missing» dwarf galaxies: the number of small dwarf galaxies that we observe is far fewer than that predicted by theory.

Some astronomers believe brown dwarfs may exist in large numbers, helping account for the so - called missing mass» of galaxiesmatter galaxies seem to contain that can not be accounted for by observed celestial objects.