Sentences with phrase «from ancient galaxies»

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the faint, ghostly glow of stars ejected from ancient galaxies that were gravitationally ripped apart several billion years ago.

Indeed, the burst appears to have occurred some distance from the ancient galaxy.

Not exact matches

Ellis, his PhD student Dan Stark and their colleagues trained one of the world's biggest telescopes, the Keck 2 atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, to scan light grazing massive clusters of closer galaxies [see image above], which focused the light coming from more ancient galaxies behind them and magnified it 20 times in a process called gravitational lensing.

But new observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed ancient stars mingled with the young ones, proving the galaxy as a whole is in fact as old as its neighbors.

Just as London and Paris are built on more ancient Roman or even older remains, our Milky Way galaxy also has multiple generations of stars that span the time from its formation to the present.

But in my opinion, the fairest of them all is the Cosmic Horseshoe found in the Sloan survey in 2007: light from an ancient blue galaxy draped 300 degrees around a red galaxy 10 times heavier than the Milky Way.

Among the stunning shots taken this week were those of the Lagoon Nebula, about 3600 light years away from Earth; the 47 Tucanae cluster of several million ancient stars about 15,000 light years from Earth; and the face - on barred spiral galaxy NGC 6744 in the star - rich southern constellation of Pavo, about 30 million light years away.

That's exactly how two astronomers from Seoul National University in Korea found an ancient, relatively close galaxy — by combing other researchers» leftovers.

STScI / NASA press releases: Hubble Makes the First Precise Distance Measurement to an Ancient Globular Star Cluster Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Deepest View of Space Yields Young Stars in Andromeda Halo Hubble Identifies Source of Ultraviolet Light in an Old Galaxy ESA press releases: Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Four Unusual Views of the Andromeda Galaxy Public speaking: On the Trail of the Missing Galaxies High - Level Science Products from Large and Treasury Programs: GO - 9453: The Age of the Andromeda Halo (126 orbits) GO - 10265: The Formation History of Andromeda (107 orbits) GO - 10816: The Formation History of Andromeda's Extended Metal - Poor Halo (128 orbits) GO - 11664 / 12666: The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury Program: Populations, Formation History and Planets (56 orbits) GO - 12549: The Formation History of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies (113 orbits)

ALMA can detect this dust from the early Universe, which is present in the most distant and ancient galaxies, thanks to submillimeter wavelengths.

R - process enrichment from a single event in an ancient dwarf galaxy.

They are much older than other galaxies, and because they're so ancient, the light from their stars is very dim.

A strange phenomenon called gravitational lensing has allowed astronomers to see this ancient galaxy bigger and brighter than any others from this distance.

Two super-Earths have been detected around Kapteyn's Star (an orphan star torn from an ancient dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way), one within its habitable zone (more).

Flinthook puts you in the shoes of the the titular character - the galaxy's smallest space pirate - and tasks you with stopping a malevolent treasure hunter from unleashing an ancient evil across the universe.

The Mass Effect trilogy follows the rise of Commander Shepard from Alliance Marine to becoming the galaxy's most elite soldier — the only soldier who can lead an all - out galactic war against an ancient alien race known as the Reapers.

Frank O'Connor The weird issue with Halo — that the very first game starts with elements of an ancient prophecy, and an all - powerful, galaxy destroying weapon — is that it's really hard to build up from there.

As for the stand - in for mass relays, instead there's ancient Remnant technology from a mysterious, advanced race that can cleanse a planet's atmosphere, acting as a new tool and source of technological intrigue that works well within the fiction of arriving in a hostile new galaxy.

BioWare's Mass Effect trilogy is an epic space opera chronicling the adventures of Commander Shepard as she, or he, attempts to save humanity and the rest of the galaxy, from an ancient race of deadly synthetic lifeforms.

Set in the year 2183, players take on the role of Commander Shepard, a soldier who must put together a team of intergalactic allies to stop the onslaught of an ancient race of aliens from wiping out all life in the galaxy.

Chris Sanderson reviews Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor # 13... Earth is under attack from an ancient species who yoked suns and spanned galaxies before we'd even evolved opposable thumbs.

BioWare's Mass Effect trilogy is the story of Commander Shepard, a tough - as - nails space - marine hero type who fights to save the galaxy from an unstoppable wave of ancient, sentient machine exterminators known as the Reapers.

Astronomers have produced one of the largest 3D maps of the young universe, where they pinpoint 4,000 early galaxies from the ancient past — many of which may resemble the Milky Way in its infancy.