Sentences with phrase «faint galaxies around»
This could allow analysis of the shells of gas around red giant stars of the faint galaxies around a quasar.
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«You build bigger, you go fainter, you go deeper, and you'll have a shot at a major discovery,» explains Pudritz, «So building these larger machines will no doubt allow us to study the birth of the first galaxies and even planet formation around distant stars.
«This mass range gets interesting, because these «ultra-faint» dwarf galaxies are so faint that we do not yet have a complete observational census of how many exist around the Milky Way.
Despite having run the highest - resolution simulation to date, Wetzel continues to push forward, and he is in the process of running an even higher - resolution, more - sophisticated simulation that will allow him to model the very faintest dwarf galaxies around the Milky Way.
To take a better galactic census, a team led by astronomer Rodrigo Ibata of the Strasbourg Observatory in France took the most detailed images yet of the space around Andromeda, exposing swarms of faint stars distributed near the galaxy.
In 1994 astronomers found a faint gauzy glow around ngc 5907, a galaxy about 36 million light - years away.
«Because red dwarfs themselves are so common,» Johnson says, «the whole galaxy must be just swarming with little habitable planets around faint red dwarfs.»
Recent advances in observational technique allow the detection of the extremely faint structure around galaxies, such as loops or debris that are likely made by dynamical interactions with satellite galaxies..
The numerous galaxy collisions literally tear some galaxies apart and scatter their stars into wide orbits around the newly created large galaxies, which should give the galaxies a faint background glow of stellar light.