Sentences with phrase «from known galaxies»

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If the expansion continues to accelerate, then in 100 billion years, the gap between galaxies will be growing so fast that light from distant galaxies will no longer reach us.

I have no doubt there there is life outside of our galaxy and the universe (not really sure where that came from).

In this vast cosmos, such as science knows it, we humans (even as an entire race, from beginning to end) are barely a speck in silent space, unimportant, less enduring than galaxies and stars» less so even than many plants, insects, and viruses» here today like the grass of the field, tomorrow gone.

I believe that an all - knowing being, powerful enough to create the entire cosmos and its billions of galaxies, watches me have $ ex to make sure I don't do anything «naughty» like protect myself from disease with a condom.

Q. 3 I believe that an all - knowing being, powerful enough to create the entire cosmos and its billions of galaxies, watches me have $ ex to make sure I don't do anything «naughty» (like protect myself from disease with a condom, for example).

You'd have to be from a galaxy far, far away to not know that Star Wars: The Force Awakens hit theaters this week — and opens everywhere in the United States tonight.

At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire observable Universe and its billions of galaxies about 13,720,000,000 years ago (the approximate age of the current iteration of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point in our evolution from Hom.o Erectus, gave us eternal life and a soul, and about 180,000 years later, sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman Palestine.

The belief that an infinitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, chose a small nomadic group of Jews from the 200 million people then alive to be his «favored people» provided they followed some rural laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine equals Judaism.

The emerging population of dim galaxies likely outnumbers, and is strikingly different from, the typical bright galaxies we know and love, challenging our conventional theories of galaxy formation and evolution.

Journey up from the smallest particles, past the moons and planets of the Solar System, out through the Oort Cloud to the Milky Way, past our Local Stars and out to distant galaxies before arriving, finally, at the edge of the known Universe.

That massive group of stars, dubbed SXDF - NB1006 - 2, lies about 13.1 billion light - years from Earth and was the oldest known galaxy when it was discovered in 2012 (a record that has been toppled several times since).

Journey up from the smallest particles, past the moons and planets of the Solar System, out through the Milky Way, past our Local Stars and then to distant galaxies before arriving, finally, at the edge of the known Universe.

James Benford also found the SETI argument intriguing, and he offered an additional twist: Knowing that leakage from their beamers would be visible elsewhere in the galaxy, advanced aliens might deliberately insert a message into the beam.

Although we've known for about a century that galaxies are receding from ours, scientists long speculated that matter's gravitational heft would eventually slow cosmic expansion — maybe even reverse it, culminating in what's called a Big Crunch.

Using observations from several telescopes, Yale University astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and colleagues studied 10 bright clumps of stars within the galaxy, known as globular clusters, and measured their velocities.

And billions of years from now, if the universe continues to accelerate, distant galaxies will recede from us faster than light and will no longer be visible.

One possibility is that dark energy, already known to be accelerating the universe, may be shoving galaxies away from each other with even greater — or growing — strength.

We know the Milky Way is a star - filled spiral galaxy in excess of 100,000 light - years wide, and we know our solar system drifts between two spiral arms at its outskirts, some 27,000 light - years from its center.

Sometimes credit didn't come because, as far as we know, he was wrong: his idea that «tired light» and not an expansion of the universe might be the cause of the lengthening of wavelengths from distant galaxies, or his insistence that galaxy clusters didn't belong to superclusters.

The reason we think it exists is because if you take what we know about gravitation and then look at the velocity of stars traveling around the center of disk galaxies, they are not traveling at the speeds we expect from visible matter.

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Everything we know in the universe — planets, people, stars, galaxies, gravity, matter and antimatter, energy and dark energy — all date from the cataclysmic Big Bang.

Based on observational knowledge, the researchers knew that supermassive black holes propel cosmic gases with a lot of energy while also «blowing» this gas away from galaxy clusters.

Mega bursts of radio waves that seem to come from a galaxy far, far away have a weird pattern — here's what you need to know

«Considering their extreme distance from Earth and the frenetic star - forming activity inside each, it's possible we may be witnessing the most intense galaxy merger known to date.»

The X-ray source containing this force - fed black hole, known by its abbreviated name of XJ1500 +0154, is located in a small galaxy about 1.8 billion light years from Earth.

The other method, practised by Riess and his colleagues, measures how distant galaxies appear to recede from us as the universe expands, using stars and supernovae of known brightness to gauge the distance to those galaxies.

We now know that the atoms making up everything visible in the cosmos — from galaxies to planets to clouds of interstellar gas and dust — represent less than about 20 per cent of the total matter out there.

The scaffolding that holds the large - scale structure of the universe constitutes galaxies, dark matter and gas (from which stars are forming), organized in complex networks known as the cosmic web.

However, starlight from the galaxies is invisible to the human eye and most modern telescopes due to other known factors that reduce visible and ultraviolet light in the universe.

Over the past few years, balloon and satellite cosmic - ray experiments have found high - energy electrons and their positively charged counterparts, positrons, in concentrations much higher than they would expect to see from the sun and other known sources of cosmic rays within our galaxy.

No matter where they looked, from inside the Milky Way to distant galaxies, they observed a puzzling glow of infrared light.

Based on data from these two launches, the researchers found fluctuations, but they had to go through a careful process to identify and remove local sources, such as the instrument, as well as emissions from the solar system, stars, scattered starlight in the Milky Way, and known galaxies.

«We don't even know if they come from inside our galaxy or if they're extragalactic,» explains Berger.

From her perspective, though, the real interest lies in a much larger but sparser spherical cloud of stars, known as the spheroid, surrounding such galaxies.

If any of our descendants escape that catastrophe, they will be able to see another, far greater one looming overhead: the Andromeda galaxy, which just might slam into the Milky Way some 6 billion years from now, to who knows what effect.

The telescope has helped researchers detect such clusters by exploiting a phenomenon known as the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect, which causes massive galaxy clusters to leave an impression on the cosmic microwave background: a faint, universe - spanning glow of light left over from the big bang.

Scientists have known for several years now that stars, galaxies, and almost everything in the universe is moving away from us (and from everything else) at a faster and faster pace.

Using microlensing — an astronomical phenomenon and the only known method capable of discovering planets at truly great distances from the Earth among other detection techniques — OU researchers were able to detect objects in extragalactic galaxies that range from the mass of the Moon to the mass of Jupiter.

The object, dubbed SDSS1133, lies about 2600 light - years from the center of a dwarf galaxy known as Markarian 177 (both of which lie within the bowl of the Big Dipper, a familiar star pattern in the constellation Ursa Major).

Just as water from the middle third of the contiguous United States flows toward the Mississippi River, Tully found that galaxies across about 500 million light - years of space flow toward a previously discovered enormous and dense region known as the Great Attractor because of its powerful gravitational pull.

The dwarf galaxy's outsize influence stems from the assumption that although Sagittarius today is a mere fraction of the Milky Way's mass, it should once have rested inside a hefty cocoon of dark matter, known as a dark matter halo, some 100 billion times the mass of the sun.

That's because no one knows whether such supergiants grow from scratch within star - forming regions, or whether, like supermassive black holes and galaxies, they reach their enormous mass through mergers.

Paul Nandra of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, says that x-rays from the superhot material can reveal «conditions right next to supermassive black holes in the most distant galaxies known.»

Now Arlin Crotts of Columbia University, New York, is watching the light from this stellar explosion echo around host galaxy M82, also known as the Cigar Galaxy (arxiv.org/abs/1409.8671).

So I don't know if you followed in the news that the ice cube collaboration reported the detection of some 28 neutrinos coming from well beyond our solar system, probably well beyond our galaxy because they're sort of the — basically, the second batch of cosmic neutrinos ever detected.

They can inflate giant bubbles of plasma, which will float away from the source galaxy, you know — in the gravitational field these giant bubbles will just float away and they again can be responsible for heating the gas that surrounds the galaxy.

Fast radio bursts are brief, bright pulses of radio emission from distant but so far unknown sources, and FRB 121102 is the only one known to repeat: more than 200 high - energy bursts have been observed coming from this source, which is located in a dwarf galaxy about 3 billion light years from Earth.

The 11 farthest known stars in our galaxy are located about 300,000 light - years from Earth, well outside the Milky Way's spiral disk.

For decades, astronomers have tried to pin down why two of the most common types of active galaxies, known as Type I and Type II galaxies, appear different when observed from Earth.