Sentences with phrase «galaxy along the line of sight»
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Follow - up images and analyses, posted June 30 at arXiv.org, showed that light is probably from a single bright blue star that coincidentally was behind the galaxy cluster, aligned along Hubble's line of sight.
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«They've assumed all the gas in the filaments is right along the line of sight between the two galaxies; and that's probably not right.»
For instance, dark matter outside the colliding galaxies but along Earth's line of sight might be contributing to the gravitational lensing.
Observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud in the early 1980's revealed that it consists of two galaxies lying along the same line of sight.
Researchers used the observed, subtle distortion of the galaxies» shapes to reconstruct the distribution of intervening mass along Hubble's line of sight - a method called weak gravitational lensing.