Sentences with phrase «edge of the galaxy»

They did this by measuring the acceleration of clouds orbiting on the outer edges of a galaxy, which enabled them to calculate the mass required to cause that acceleration.

Specifically, Yale astronomer Jeffrey Kenney looked at the way the cosmic wind is eroding the gas and dust at the leading edge of the galaxy.

Unlike previous SDSS surveys, they are not only mapping the centers of galaxies where supermassive black holes live, but the outer edges of the galaxies as well, which allowed them to discover the red geyser galaxy.

Z Z Z My feet make no noise as I dance to the edge Of my galaxy, this gossamer star - net that catches The sun filtering gray through....

The usual explanation is that the gravity of dark matter prevents this, but MOND says an object in a weak gravitational field — like that at the edge of a galaxy — will feel a slightly stronger pull than Newton would have predicted.

If the sun had been born near the edge of the galaxy, chances are neither the Earth nor life would have arisen.

It will pin down the exact positions of thousands of stars, including many at the edge of our galaxy.

That means the objects are infant stars, located barely 200 light - years from the edge of the galaxy's black hole.

«Within just 11 hours, several teams had pinpointed a new source on the edge of the galaxy NGC4993.

The object is thought to be a binary stsr at the edge of galaxy

It is an X-ray emitting binary star near the edge of our galaxy, about 30,000 light - years away.

To learn more about the discovery, and what might have caused the stars to form at the edge of our galaxy, read the Royal Astronomical Society news release.

We can see only halfway to the edge of the galaxy, but the closer you get to the edge, the more information you can gain about how the galaxy was formed.

Professor Meurer said that the next generation of radio telescopes, like the soon - to - be-built Square Kilometre Array (SKA), will generate enormous amounts of data, and knowing where the edge of a galaxy lies will reduce the processing power needed to search through the data.

Professor Meurer and his team also found evidence of older stars existing out to the edge of galaxies.

However, testing these predictions has proven to be extremely challenging, because such gas at the edges of galaxies is so rarefied that it emits very little light.

Some astronomical observations indicate that a principal source of cosmic rays is Cygnus X-3, a distant binary star system near the edge of our galaxy.

These stargazing scientists have been facing their own darkness on the edge of town (or on the edge of galaxies) for a long time as they try to explain one of astronomy's greatest mysteries.

On the left is NGC 2419, it is a large but very distant globular cluster lying far beyond the edge of the galaxy.

But Curtis thought that this only occurred at the edge of galaxies, and so was not important for determining distances internal to our Galaxy.

What they saw instead was that stars at the edge of a galaxy had the same rotational velocity as stars near the center.

Battlezone: Combat Commander's concept was simple — get in tank, follow orders and follow a simple storyline to wreak havoc on «edge of the galaxy» locations.

But before shooting off to the edge of the galaxy, the story begins on the ground, in the dirt, on a farm owned by a country - bred former astronaut named Cooper (Matthew McConaughey).

After committing a crime, fugitive professional gamer K tries to ride out the statute of limitations in a one - man spaceship at the edge of the galaxy.

Somewhere on the edges of the galaxy an epic war is being waged!

This makes the isolation of her environments feel more oppressive — out on the edges of the galaxy, completely alone, with no one to come to your aid.

Discover the secrets of gravity and use it to reach the edges of the galaxy, fly around planets, and avoid catastrophic accidents.

Fourteen years ago, Ubisoft released Beyond Good and Evil, a game that took players to the edge of the galaxy to unravel a mystery only a young journalist could.

«In Mass Effect: Arrival, Commander Shepard is sent to the edge of the galaxy to rescue an undercover operative who may have evidence of an imminent Reaper invasion that has been looming since the very beginning of the series.»

Chris Priestly announced the details to «Arrival»: «In Mass Effect: Arrival, Commander Shepard is sent to the edge of the galaxy to rescue an undercover operative who may have -LSB-...]

Manage a group of survivors as the found a fledgling colony at the edge of the galaxy, under the direction of an AI storyteller.

The paintings have the character of regurgitated modernism, but a retro low - budget sci - fi equivalent; the kind of pictures one might imagine Captain Rimmer from Red Dwarf would buy from a kitsch provincial gallery at the edge of a galaxy to hang in his office.