Sentences with phrase «dwarf satellites orbiting»

A team of astronomers have identified nine new dwarf satellites orbiting the Milky Way, the largest number ever discovered at once.

A team of astronomers from the University of Cambridge have identified nine new dwarf satellites orbiting the Milky Way, the largest number ever discovered at once.

«Distant galaxy group contradicts common cosmological models, simulations: Astronomers find plane of dwarf satellites orbiting Centaurus A.» ScienceDaily.

Not exact matches

An international team of astronomers has determined that Centaurus A, a massive elliptical galaxy 13 million light - years from Earth, is accompanied by a number of dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting the main body in a narrow disk.

Stuart Clark describes how a superfluid Bose - Einstein state of dark matter particles might explain the streams of dwarf satellite galaxies in polar orbit around the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies (2 April, p 30).

The discovery of a small moon orbiting the third - largest dwarf planet means all the large objects orbiting beyond Neptune have satellites.

Measuring in at around half the size of Makemake, RR245 is much smaller than other known dwarf planets in the neighborhood, but still meets the International Astronomical Union's (IAU) criteria of that category: namely, it's in orbit around the Sun, it has sufficient mass for its self - gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a nearly round shape, and, unlike regular planets, it hasn't cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit, and it isn't a satellite.

The new satellites were found in the southern hemisphere near the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud, the largest and most well - known dwarf galaxies in the Milky Way's orbit.