Sentences with phrase «extending millions of light years»

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A team using the Hubble Space Telescope found the invisible ring, which extends 2.6 million light - years across [see image above], while mapping the distribution of dark matter in the galaxy cluster CL 0024 +17.

If you want to see just how far BYU's latest research extends, step outside of your house tonight, look up towards the sky, focus your view between the constellations of Cygnus and Lyra, and then zoom in about 100 million light years.

Both are huge, extending for millions of light - years, and very massive: each is about one quadrillion times the mass of our Sun.

They and their students took thousands of spectra of galaxies along thin pie - shaped slices of the sky over 15 years to produce the map with 2 slices extending out about 400 million light years shown below.

The map provides a tantalizing glimpse of giant filamentary structures extending across millions of light - years, and paves the way for more extensive studies that will reveal not only the structure of the cosmic web, but also details of its function — the ways that pristine gas is funneled along the web into galaxies, providing the raw material for the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets.

Using Keck Observatory's Keck I telescope in Hawaii, they observed a very large, luminous nebula of gas extending about 2 million light - years across intergalactic space, which they nicknamed the «Slug Nebula» in honor of UCSC's banana slug mascot.

Combining all of the measurements across the entire field of view allowed the team a tantalizing glimpse of giant filamentary structures extending across millions of light - years, and paves the way for more extensive studies that will reveal not only the structure of the cosmic web, but also details of its function — the ways that pristine gas is funneled along the web into galaxies, providing the raw material for the formation of galaxies, stars, and planets.

The gravitational pull of the Virgo cluster has stretched this collection of groups into a long chain of galaxies which extends across 40 million light years of space.

Using the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, the researchers detected a very large, luminous nebula of gas extending about 2 million light - years across intergalactic space.

This deep image shows the nebula (cyan) extending across 2 million light - years that was discovered around the bright quasar UM287 (at the center of the image).