Sentences with phrase «galaxies millions of light years»

«You are older than you think — or at least, some of the iron in your blood is older, formed in galaxies millions of light years away and billions of years ago,» Simionescu said.

Enormous black holes in galaxies millions of light years away are pelting us with energetic particles.

It's been a few hundred years now without an adequate explanation of why dinosaur fossils exist, or how we can see light from galaxies millions of light years away.

Enter one of these tunnels through space - time, and a few short steps later you may emerge near Pluto or even in the Andromeda galaxy millions of light years away.

Not exact matches

This «hole in space» is a 300 million light year gap in the distribution of galaxies, has taken cosmologists by surprise, not because it exists, but because it is so big.

An astronomer is investigating the spectrum of light from a galaxy a million light - years away.

It is hard to believe that a galaxy 100 million light years away, that we can't even see, was created as part of a god's plan for man.

If the galaxy is 2 million light - years away, then we are viewing it as it was 2 million years ago because that is how long the light traveled, undisturbed through vast stretches of empty space, before it reached us.

On Sept. 20, 2016, Buso of Rosario, Argentina, was testing a new camera on his 16 - inch telescope by taking a series of short - exposure photographs of the spiral galaxy NGC 613, which is about 80 million light years from Earth and located within the southern constellation Sculptor.

Befitting its «high definition» moniker, HDST's huge mirror could capture features the size of Manhattan in the cloudscapes of Jupiter and track the motions of individual sunlike stars in galaxies up to 30 million light - years away.

An international team of astronomers has determined that Centaurus A, a massive elliptical galaxy 13 million light - years from Earth, is accompanied by a number of dwarf satellite galaxies orbiting the main body in a narrow disk.

The gravitational swell originated more than 750 million light - years away, where the high - speed dance of two converging black holes shook the very foundation upon which planets, stars and galaxies reside.

Perseus Cluster A group of more than a thousand galaxies located 250 million light - years from Earth.

Nevertheless, on Nov. 11, 2014, a global network of robotic telescopes named ASASSN (All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae) picked up signals of a possible tidal disruption flare from a galaxy 300 million light years away.

In the center of a distant galaxy, almost 300 million light years from Earth, scientists have discovered a supermassive black hole that is «choking» on a sudden influx of stellar debris.

The Chandra results show that a supermassive black hole in the heart of the Perseus galaxy cluster, 250 million light - years from Earth, generates enough of a sonic wallop to do the job.

In a recent paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, Boorman (and colleagues from the NuSTAR active galaxies science team) described how data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has been used to study the intrinsic behaviour of a «hidden» supermassive black hole in a galaxy nearby to our own — IC 3639 — some 175 million light years from Earth, relatively close by in cosmic terms.

Because the galaxy is only 2.5 million light - years from Earth, it is a much bigger target in the sky than the myriad galaxies Hubble routinely photographs that are billions of light - years away.

About 500 million years after the Big Bang, one of the first galaxies in the universe formed, containing stars of about the same mass as the sun — which can live for 10 billion years — as well as lighter stars.

Arp 256 is a stunning system of two spiral galaxies, about 350 million light - years away, in an early stage of merging.

Such maps reveal the existence of superclusters and filaments of galaxies hundreds of millions of light - years across.

Corbin and Vacca propose that two «subgalactic» clumps of stars, each perhaps just 300 light - years across, crashed to create POX 186 within the last 100 million years — recently enough that the new galaxy hasn't yet settled down.

Though the galaxy is over 2 million light - years away, the Hubble telescope is powerful enough to resolve individual stars in a 61,000 - light - year - long stretch of the galaxy's pancake - shaped disk.

A team using the Hubble Space Telescope found the invisible ring, which extends 2.6 million light - years across [see image above], while mapping the distribution of dark matter in the galaxy cluster CL 0024 +17.

Further, POX 186 sits in a vast bubble of otherwise empty space about 30 million light - years across — one of countless voids that pock the cosmic web of galaxies.

«We have spent five years collecting measurements of 1.2 million galaxies over one quarter of the sky to map out the structure of the Universe over a volume of 650 cubic billion light years,» says Jeremy Tinker of New York University, a co-leader of the scientific team carrying out this effort.

Santiago Garcia - Burillo of Spain's Madrid Observatory and his colleagues have used a radio telescope array in Chile to image the torus of NGC 1068, a galaxy 50 million light years away.

Located some 60 million light - years away, NGC 4388 is experiencing some of the less desirable effects that come with belonging to such a massive galaxy cluster.

The analysis is based on Hubble images of a spiral galaxy in the Coma cluster, located 300 million light years from Earth.

In August of 2011, researchers discovered SN 2011fe, a type 1a supernova 21 million light - years away in galaxy M101 (images show the galaxy before and after the supernova, with the supernova circled at right).

In the heart of MCG -6-30-15, a galaxy 130 million light - years away, there is a hole.

Jets are narrow streams of gas that emerge from the cores of some galaxies, travel at more than 99 percent the speed of light, and penetrate as much as several million light - years into intergalactic space before fanning out into broad, luminous lobes.

Intriguingly, the excess points in the direction of the nearest cluster of galaxies to the Milky Way, located between 300 million and 900 million light - years from Earth.

Cordes estimates the source of Arecibo's repeating FRB is perhaps a few hundreds of millions of light - years away but acknowledges it could also be in a particularly plasma - rich galaxy much closer.

ALMA just snapped its first image, showing cold gas in the Antennae galaxies, a pair of colliding spiral galaxies 70 million light years away.

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In 1933, the Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky (pictured, right), working at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, applied this principle to the motion of galaxies that make up the Coma cluster, a group of over 1000 galaxies some 300 million light years from us.

Using the world's largest radio telescope, two astronomers from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia have detected the faint signal emitted by atomic hydrogen gas in galaxies three billion light years from Earth, breaking the previous record distance by 500 million light years.

As part of its Frontier Fields program, Hubble observed a very massive cluster of galaxies, MACS J0416.1 - 2403, located roughly 4 billion light - years away and weighing as much as a million billion suns.

The observatories are designed to be sensitive to waves from as far away as the Virgo cluster of galaxies 65 million light - years away.

About 12 million light years from Earth resides one of the Milky Way's closest neighbors, a disk galaxy called Messier 82 (M82).

The galaxy Hu and her team found has a redshift of 6.56, putting it about 15.5 billion light - years away, so this light dates back to just 780 million years after the big bang.

During the past decade astronomers looking deep into space with supersensitive electronic detectors have found millions of faint blue galaxies at distances exceeding 4 billion light - years.

Most of the galaxies they discovered are within 300 million light - years of Earth; most LSB galaxies farther away would be too dim to show up in their photographs.

The galaxy is located about 54 million light - years away in the middle of the immense Virgo cluster — a collection of about 1500 closely packed galaxies.

When you see Jupiter shining in the night sky, for example, you're looking about an hour back in time, whereas the light from distant galaxies captured by telescopes today was emitted millions of years ago.

That piece of sky is like a piece of pie pointed at the telescope: it includes a much bigger volume of space — and many more galaxies — at a distance of 4 billion light - years than at 100 million light - years.

Thus, at a distance of 700 million light - years — not very far on a cosmic scale — it is barely observable through the background glow of stars in our own galaxy.

In recent years, Margaret Geller and John Huchra of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics have compiled three — dimensional maps of the Universe which show galaxies spread in thin sheets surrounding bubble - like voids hundreds of millions of light years across.

The Perseus cluster is a dense collection of hundreds of large and small galaxies located 240 million light years away.