Sentences with phrase «for local galaxies»

These diagnostics have been observed and tested for local galaxies extensively in the past decade, but for distant galaxies it is challenging to acquire complete multi-wavelength datasets.

Not exact matches

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

Actually, there is no reason either to go to your local theatre or to leave this galaxy for another one far away if you want to know what happened a long time ago in our universe.

Here in our Local Group, for instance, some 50 - odd galaxies nestle within a dumbbell - shaped space 10 million light - years long.

At least within the Local Supercluster of galaxies, there is highly significant evidence for a regular spacing corresponding to a red shift difference of 37.6 + - 2 kilometres per second.

«For the first time, we are not only visualizing the detailed structure of our Local Supercluster of galaxies but we are seeing how the structure developed over the history of the universe.

Evidence for a ~ 300 megaparsec scale under - density in the local galaxy distribution.

Computer simulations derived from Hubble's data show that it will take an additional two billion years after the encounter for the interacting galaxies to completely merge under the tug of gravity and reshape into a single elliptical galaxy similar to the kind commonly seen in the local universe.

However, as it is much brighter than typical dwarf spheroids, Sidney van dan Bergh has recently introduced the term «Spheroidal Galaxy» for this and similar galaxies, including Local Group members NGC 147 and NGC 185.

Tadpoles are rare in the local Universe but common in the distant Universe, suggesting that many galaxies pass through a phase like this as they evolve (Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Elmegreen (Vassar College), B. Elmegreen (IBM's Thomas J. Watson Research Center), J. Almeida, C. Munoz - Tunon, and M. Filho (Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias), J. Mendez - Abreu (University of St. Andrews), J. Gallagher (University of Wisconsin - Madison), M. Rafelski (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center), and D. Ceverino (Center for Astronomy at Heidelberg University)-RRB-

An international team of astronomers has derived directly, for the first time, the orbital distribution of a galaxy sample, containing more than 300 galaxies of the local universe.

With action - packed combat and several unique weapons to choose from, including the epic and humming nanosword, the boomerang - like top hat, the ghost sword projectile, and plenty of bombs, Songbringer allows players to go it alone in the galaxy or with a friend — local co-op allows for a second player to join you as Jib, your robot companion with a strange propensity for moustaches.