Sentences with phrase «faint galaxy called»

Not exact matches

Though astronomers still do not know what kinds of events or objects produce FRBs, the discovery is a stepping stone for astronomers to understand the diffuse, faint web of material that exists between galaxies, called the cosmic web.

In this discovery, reported by Caltech researchers in June, radio telescopes picked up faint traces of the organic compound propylene oxide in a vast cloud of gas and dust called Sagittarius B2, which is near the center of our galaxy.

Further studies showed that this object, called B3 1715 +425, is a supermassive black hole surrounded by a galaxy much smaller and fainter than would be expected.

By combining these color data, it is possible to make a crude estimate of the distances to the faint background galaxies (called photometric redshift).

Knowing the abundance of oxygen in the galaxy called COSMOS - 1908 is an important stepping stone toward allowing astronomers to better understand the population of faint, distant galaxies observed when the Universe was only a few billion years old, Shapley said.