Sentences with phrase «dwarf galaxy located»
UGC 2773 (left) is a compact dwarf galaxy located at the back of the group.
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A team of Russian and American scientists has discovered a previously - unknown dwarf galaxy located about 7 million light years away from our own.
UGCA 86 (centre) and UGCA 92 (right) are much closer, they are two faint irregular dwarf galaxies located about seven million light years from us at the front of the group near IC 342.
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Fast radio bursts are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant but so far unknown sources, and FRB 121102 is the only one known to repeat: more than 200 high - energy bursts have been observed coming from this source, which is located in a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light years from Earth.
The team located the FRB about 100,000 times more precisely than previous attempts with individual telescopes, letting them unambiguously associate it with a dwarf galaxy about a tenth of the diameter of the Milky Way, more than 2.5 billion light years away (Nature, doi.org/bwss).
«There's about a one - in - 12 chance that what we're seeing in the dwarf galaxies is not even a signal at all, just a fluctuation in the gamma - ray background,» explained Elliott Bloom, a member of the LAT Collaboration at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, jointly located at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University.
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)
The mystery object is part of the dwarf galaxy Markarian 177, located in the bowl of the Big Dipper, a well - known star pattern within the constellation Ursa Major.
A dwarf galaxy called NGC 4625, located about 30 million light - years away in the constellation of Canes Venatici (The Hunting Dogs)
The closest of the three dwarf galaxies is located nearly 100,000 light - years away and is located in the constellation Reticulum.
Three of these faintly - lit bodies, located in the southern hemisphere near the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, were confirmed as dwarf galaxies, which contain stars numbering in the thousands in contrast to our galaxy, which is believed to contain over 300 billion stars.
Hunting for merging dwarf galaxies in various environments, Paudel and Sengupta found UGC 4703, an interacting pair of dwarf galaxies that are located near the isolated spiral galaxy NGC 2718.
The dwarf galaxy in which it is located is reportedly much smaller than the Milky Way, they said, and contains approximately half as many stars.
The object, identified as FRB 121102, is located in a dwarf galaxy some three billion light years from Earth and was first detected giving off a fast radio burst back in November 2012, according to New Scientist.