Sentences with phrase «dwarf irregular galaxies»

The Coalsack earned the nickname «Black Magellanic Cloud» in the 16th century, apparently rivalling the prominence of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two dwarf irregular galaxies that shine brightly in the skies of the Southern Hemisphere.

They hope to localize more bursts to see whether they usually live in dwarf irregular galaxies, and whether they all appear alongside steady radio sources, both of which would support the newborn - magnetar theory.

These events occur disproportionately often in dwarf irregular galaxies, which are thought to be similar to some of the earliest galaxies that populated the universe.

But dwarf irregular galaxies are likely to have formed from lightweight hydrogen and helium that remain pristine from when the universe was young.

The dwarf irregular galaxies may be from cloud fragments that did not get incorporated into larger galaxies.

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, visible in the Southern Hemisphere, are two dwarf irregular galaxies that are neighbors of the Milky Way.

Not exact matches

Irregular dwarf galaxies like Barnard's get their bloblike forms from close encounters with other galaxies.

NGC 6822, about 1.6 million light - years away, is classified as an irregular dwarf galaxy because of its odd shape and relatively small size compared with other galaxies, such as our own, the Milky Way, and its other neighbors, the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies.

Galaxies come in irregular shapes, too, including many dwarf gGalaxies come in irregular shapes, too, including many dwarf galaxiesgalaxies.

The estimates of the number of dwarf irregulars and dwarf ellipticals are based on the proportions of these types of galaxies in nearby groups.

There may be more irregular and dwarf galaxies.

The dwarf ellipticals may be the most common type of galaxy in the universe (or maybe the dwarf irregulars are).

«The beauty of this is that dwarf irregulars are the most numerous type of galaxy, and many, like IC 10, are relatively nearby.

To nearly everybody's surprise, as reported in January in the journal Nature, the bursts originated in a small «dwarf irregular» galaxy, one about a gigaparsec (just over 3 billion light years) away.

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.

IC 1574 (right) is an irregular dwarf galaxy which is also at the back of this group.

ESO 407 - 18 (left) is an irregular dwarf galaxy which like NGC 55 is at the front of the Sculptor Group about 6 or 7 million light years from us.

These are two minor galaxies in the same constellation Sagittarius, which are of different type: The difference between these types is that dwarf irregulars still have interstellar matter and / or young stars while the dwarf elliptical have only an old yellowish stellar population.