Sentences with phrase «galaxy as a whole»

Images like this one will help astronomers understand how dust behaves inside galaxies, which in turn will help us understand galaxies as a whole.

Previously, astronomers have used x-ray telescopes to observe strong winds very near the massive black holes at galactic centers (artist's concept, inset) and infrared wavelengths to detect the vast outflows of cool gas (bluish haze in artist's concept, main image) from such galaxies as a whole, but they've never done so in the same galaxy.

Tracking the motion of this bright spot precisely should be easier than the galaxy as a whole, say the team.

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.

«The key thing is to see whether the globular clusters really are tracing the mass of the galaxy as a whole.»

By mapping the masers, the VLBI networks can determine the exact locations of the Milky Way's star formation regions and so map the galaxy as a whole.

The velocities measured within much of the Milky Way are strongly affected by local gas movements such as expanding bubbles and streaming within spiral arms and not just the rotation of the galaxy as a whole.

Slowly, the galaxy as a whole is becoming more carbon - rich; in the future, all planets formed may be carbon planets.

From the wealth of Hubble data, astronomers now understand that black holes can have profound influences on the galaxy as a whole.

If this pattern of detections were found to be a feature of the galaxy as a whole, it would challenge some components of the basic planet formation model.

If you extrapolate that to our galaxy as a whole, the calculation based on the Kepler data is that there are around 40 billion planets like earth.»

From there, Shepard is reinstated and the quest to ready the galaxy as a whole from the treat of extinction that the Reapers represent begins.