Sentences with phrase «galactic structures in»

A separate COSMOS team led by Scoville presented images of the large scale galactic structures in the same area with the dark matter.

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Yet Centaurus A is the third documented example, behind the Milky Way and Andromeda, of a «vast polar structure» in which satellite dwarves co-rotate around a central galactic mass in what Pawlowski calls «preferentially oriented alignment.»

The only explanation cosmologists can offer for this structure is that the enormous galactic sheets must themselves be embedded in even larger agglomerations of dark matter.

What's more, by looking at the distribution of dark and normal matter in our universe, scientists can get a better handle on dark energy and how it battles gravity to slow the growth of galactic structures.

Its odd structure is due to the fact that this is not one galaxy, but two — in the process of a galactic collision.

Some stars in the spheroid are the remains of galactic cannibalism, having come from dwarf galaxies that fell into the spiral galaxy, were ripped apart by powerful tidal forces, and were incorporated into the larger galaxy's structure.

Supercomputer simulations model how galaxies and galactic clusters grow in long filamentary structures known as the cosmic web.

But in a study published today in the journal Nature, astronomers now have compelling evidence showing that some of these halo structures actually originate from the Milky Way's disk itself, but were kicked out; this phenomenon is called galactic eviction.

The enormous structure, dubbed the Fermi Bubbles, was discovered five years ago as a gamma - ray glow on the sky in the direction of the galactic center.

They are so large and loosely structured that their self - gravitation is insufficient to hold them together, and in a matter of a few million years the members disperse into surrounding space, becoming separate and unconnected stars in the galactic field.

The existence of the enormous spiral galaxies will require astronomers to develop new theories allowing for the development of the vast structures, as no such provision exists for super spirals in the current galactic evolutionary model.

These extended, cool and hence red stars are key targets for stellar evolution studies as well as galactic studies for several reasons: a) many stars go through a red - giant phase; b) red giants are intrinsically bright; c) large stellar internal structure changes as well as changes in surface chemical abundances take place over relatively short time; d) red - giant stars exhibit global intrinsic oscillations.

These clear windows through the Galaxy have great significance in the study of galactic structure, since they make it possible to study otherwise hidden, distant regions (after Murdin / Allen / Malin's Catalogue of the Universe, 1979).

We have clearly detected FIR dust emission extended in the halo of the galaxy; there are two filamentary emission structures extending from the galactic disk up to 9 kpc in the northern and 6 kpc in the northwestern direct... ▽ More We present new far - infrared (FIR) images of the edge - on starburst galaxy NGC253 obtained with the Far - Infrared Surveyor (FIS) onboard AKARI at wavelengths of 90 um and 140 um.

Detection of the spiral's dust in a bi-symmetric structure provides strong evidence of its position deep inside the giant elliptical host while the vast amounts of radio, visual, and x-ray emissions are a result of the energy released by this continuing galactic merger (or «consumption» of a satellite galaxy).

The central region of the Milky Way is dominated by a bar - like structure, which stirs up the material in the outer galactic disk as it rotates over millions of years and may be responsible for its spiral structure.

Past computer modelling have shown that galactic bars and rings can be formed by gravitational interactions, and such structures in the Milky Way's core even may be related to interactions with our largest neighbor, the Andromeda Galaxy.

A «mission» structure provides new goals in your quest for galactic dominance.

The arrangement of circular forms connected by thin strands appears in other areas of physics — related to unimaginably huge structures such as galactic jets, which emanate from black holes at the centres of many galaxies.

7.4.5 Impact of Cosmic Rays on Aerosols and Clouds 43 44 High solar acti0vity leads to variations in the strength and three - dimensional structure of the heliosphere, 45 which reduces the flux of galactic cosmic rays (GCR) impinging upon the Earth's atmosphere by increasing 46 the deflection of low energy GCR.

The 586 million year cycle also shows as a 586 million light year wave structure of galactic walls in space.

Indeed, there is no consensus on the galactic structure, spiral arm pattern and speed, and much disagreement in million year temperature reconstructions.