Sentences with phrase «galaxy cluster called»

A massive galaxy cluster called SPT - CL J0615 - 5746 sits in the foreground of the newly discovered SPT0615 - JD.

The galaxy cluster called MOO J1142 +1527 can be seen here as it existed when light left it 8.5 billion years ago.

Patrick Kelly at the University of California, Berkeley and his colleagues found the star in Hubble Space Telescope images of a galaxy cluster called MACS J1149.

Not exact matches

A newly released image from NASA Hubble telescope reveals that a huge cluster of galaxies called Abell 370, has an array of galaxies guarding it and is useful in studying far - flung galaxies by its gravitational lensing property.

Our local group comprises Andromeda, the Magellanic Clouds and about 35 other galaxies, all of which lie in an even larger cluster called Virgo.

Astronomers first discovered a hint of this cometlike ball of gas careering through a distant cluster of galaxies called Abell 3266 two years ago, but they didn't know what to make of it.

Ellis, his PhD student Dan Stark and their colleagues trained one of the world's biggest telescopes, the Keck 2 atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, to scan light grazing massive clusters of closer galaxies [see image above], which focused the light coming from more ancient galaxies behind them and magnified it 20 times in a process called gravitational lensing.

Most of the universes» galaxies, which each contain billions of stars, are surrounded by up to several thousands of so - called globular clusters, groups of up to a million suns packed into dense spheres by gravity.

His team has designed a balloon - borne telescope called SuperBIT, which they hope to use to check hundreds of galaxy clusters for misbehaving dark matter.

The constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) is especially rich in galaxies, due in part to the presence of a massive and gravitationally - bound collection of over 1300 galaxies called the Virgo Cluster.

The majority of galaxies are organized into a hierarchy of associations called clusters, which, in turn, can form larger groups called superclusters.

The cluster's immense gravitational field magnifies the image of galaxies far behind it, in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.

They trained the 10 - meter Keck telescopes atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, on a cluster of galaxies called Abell 370, about 6 billion light - years away.

Ultra-compact dwarfs, highlighted here within the so - called Fornax galaxy cluster, are a type of small star system.

Astronomers have already begun leveraging Hubble and other space telescopes to create a preview of what Webb may reveal, staring at some of the largest galaxy clusters in a project called «Frontier Fields.»

Such clusters have very dense cores, each containing a massive galaxy called the «brightest cluster galaxy» (BCG).

Some 60 million light - years in length, this thread funnels all kinds of matter — visible and not — from intergalactic space into a giant cluster of galaxies called MACS J0717.5 +3745.

The huge mass of the cluster distorts and magnifies the light from galaxies that lie behind it due to an effect called gravitational lensing.

The images depict hundreds of galaxies merging into a huge cluster called Abell 520, located about 2.4 billion light - years away.

But critics point out that MOND can not explain the observed masses of clusters of galaxies without invoking dark matter, in the form of almost massless, known particles called neutrinos.

The astronomers observed an object called 1E0657 - 556, which was produced by two galaxy clusters that collided with one another 100 million years ago at 4700 kilometres per second.

In February, an image from the Hubble Space Telescope revealed one extremely distant galaxy behind a large cluster called Abell 2218.

For this reason, researchers look at vast collections of galaxies, called galaxy clusters, where collisions involving dark matter happen naturally and where it exists in vast enough quantities to see the effects of collisions [2].

Andrew Gould of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, analysed a small cluster of galaxies called Eridanus A.

Given the massive concentrations of giant, hot stars clustered around the center, could we at least call ourselves a starburst galaxy?

The cluster is so massive that its powerful gravity bends the light from galaxies far behind it, making background objects appear larger and brighter in a phenomenon called gravitational lensing.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured a collision of four galaxies within a cluster called CL0958 +4702.

Because galaxies are pulled toward gravitational attractors and move away from empty regions, these motions allowed the team to locate the denser matter in clusters and filaments and the absence of matter in regions called voids.

This is because a large cluster of galaxies called Abell 1689, lies between the galaxy and Earth.

The cluster is so massive that it magnifies the light from faraway galaxies behind it due to a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where the curvature of space acts like a giant funhouse mirror to stretch and brighten distant objects.

But if it passes NASA approval, the potential new mission, called K2, could mean a whole different kind of search to find Earth - size exoplanets, along with supernovae, protostars and galaxy clusters.

Other clusters with hundreds to thousands of galaxies are called rich clusters.

However, one object, in a cluster of galaxies called ZwCl 8193, did not fit that pattern.

Both the galaxy and the galaxy cluster are acting like a giant «cosmic lens,» bending and magnifying light from the supernova behind it, an effect called gravitational lensing.

There are many other groups of galaxies scattered around these two clusters and collectively these groups are often called the Fornax Supercluster or Southern Supercluster.

To explain the unique, four - up projection, the scientists determined a galaxy cluster and one of its massive elliptical members are gravitationally bending and magnifying the light from the supernova behind it, through an effect called gravitational lensing.

This so - called «cold» dark matter accurately describes large - scale structures like galaxy clusters.

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The nature of dark matter — which physicists describe as the invisible component or so - called «missing mass» in the universe that would explain the faster - than - expected spins of galaxies, and their motion in clusters observed across the universe — has eluded scientists since its existence was deduced through calculations by Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky in 1933.

Dark matter constitutes the filaments — which researchers learned typically stretch and bend across hundreds of millions of light years — and the so - called halos that host clusters of galaxies are fed by the universal network of filaments.

These cosmic lenses are created by massive structures like galaxies and galaxy clusters, which deflect the light from objects behind them due to their strong gravity — an effect, called gravitational lensing.

Caption: In the big image at left, the many galaxies of a massive cluster called MACS J1149 +2223 dominate the scene.

Galaxies are not scattered randomly throughout the universe, but are often found in «clusters,» which are in turn parts of larger groupings called «super-clusters.»

A massive cluster of galaxies, called SpARCS1049 +56, can be seen in this multi-wavelength view from NASA's Hubble and... view image

Astronomers can see this individual star because its light has been highly magnified by an intervening galaxy cluster through a process called gravitational lensing, said Liliya Williams, University professor in the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics.

This image of galaxy cluster Abell 2744, also called Pandora's Cluster, was taken by the Spitzer Space Telcluster Abell 2744, also called Pandora's Cluster, was taken by the Spitzer Space TelCluster, was taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope.

In addition to my Frontier Fields work, I am leading a large new Hubble program called RELICS to observe 41 more lensing galaxy clusters.

In fact, the galaxy cluster's gravity had bent space - time to magnify the star's image, a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where an object magnifies the light of objects directly behind it.

In November 2014, Hubble's Frontier Fields program caught sight of a supernova called «Refsdal» while examining the MACS J1149.5 +2223 galaxy cluster.

Dr. Jean Brodie, from the University of California at Santa Cruz, will trace the formation and evolution of galaxies over cosmic time, making use of some «astronomical fossils» called globular star clusters, that are bright beacons tracing all the mergers and acquisitions that have assembled into present day galaxies.