Sentences with phrase «dwarf galaxy candidates»
«Most of the dwarf galaxy candidates that my colleagues and I observed around Centaurus A are arranged this way, and it's a similar case with at least half of them around Andromeda.»
http://technologyalpha.net/
«Scientists have identified close to 50 dwarf galaxy candidates around the Milky Way — most of them are aligned in a plane orbiting the centre of the host galaxy,» Dr Jerjen said.
The faintest of the new dwarf galaxy candidates has about 500 stars.
Fourteen of the dwarf galaxy candidates found in DES data are visible in this particular image.
This map has led to the discovery of 17 dwarf galaxy candidates in the past six months (red dots), including eight new candidates announced today.
«Dark Energy Survey finds more celestial neighbors: New dwarf galaxy candidates could mean our sky is more crowded than we thought.»
Not exact matches
«Just this year, more than 20 of these dwarf satellite galaxy candidates have been spotted, with 17 of those found in Dark Energy Survey data,» said Alex Drlica - Wagner of the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, one of the leaders of the DES analysis.
The 17 dwarf satellite galaxy candidates were discovered in the first two years of data collected by the Dark Energy Survey, a five - year effort to photograph a portion of the southern sky in unprecedented detail.
Astronomers generally agree that enormous black holes lurk at the centre of most galaxies, and have identified plausible candidates in many galaxies, including the neighbouring dwarf galaxy M32 — and our own Milky Way.
«Scientists find rare dwarf satellite galaxy candidates in dark energy survey data.»