Data from three of NASA's Great Observatories uncover the most massive
galaxy cluster ever detected in the early univ...
Our observations yield the deepest mid and far - infrared images of
a galaxy cluster ever achieved.
Not exact matches
Without Nothingness hemming together all of the celestial pageantries»
clusters of
galaxies in nebulas,
ever forming solar systems, Life as we know would never have been able to be and therefore become.
On scales larger than
galaxy clusters, all
galaxies are indeed moving apart at an
ever increasing rate.
Looking at random parts of the sky with Hubble, astronomers have found what appears to be the most distant protocluster
ever seen: five
galaxies in the process of growth, forming a cosmic collection that may grow into a massive
cluster.
Many researchers argue that
ever more evidence from
clusters of
galaxies, the largest scale structure of the universe, and the afterglow of the big bang points to the existence of dark matter.
The largest clumps of matter in the universe had an initial angular momentum — and these clumps broke up into
ever smaller clumps, forming smaller
clusters of
galaxies, groups of
galaxies, individual
galaxies, solar systems within
galaxies and ultimately, individual stars and planets.
«I've been studying globular
clusters in
galaxies for a long time, and this is the first time I've
ever seen this,» said Michael Beasley, also of the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias.
This is the first time
ever that such a location differentiation has been found in a
galaxy cluster 10 billion light - years away.
«
Ever since Edwin Hubble first started working on the distances to
galaxies, back in the late 1920s, the distance to the Virgo
cluster has been the primary goal of astronomers in order to derive the Hubble constant.»
The new discovery is one of the only known cases of a wet merger at the core of a
galaxy cluster, and the most distant example
ever found.
«The map's most eye - catching feature is the Sloan Great Wall of
galaxies, a
clustering of
galaxies that stretches 1.37 billion light - years across the sky and is the largest cosmic structure
ever found.
The Hubble results have revolutionized the state of knowledge in virtually any branch of astronomy — not that every good result comes from the HST, but as these data are available publicly, they are used if
ever possible; from planets, comets, and asteroids to stars,
clusters, nebulae, and
galaxies, every sort of objects in the sky were investigated, often obtaining most revolutionary results.
Hubble view of a
galaxy cluster containing some of the smallest and youngest
galaxies ever observed.
The ultra-deep images of
galaxy clusters are revealing the faintest
galaxies ever studied, magnified by gravitational lensing.
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — The international University of California, Riverside - led SpARCS collaboration has discovered four of the most distant
clusters of
galaxies ever found, as they appeared when the... Read more»
It may also be at the same distance (about 88,000 light years), so probably M54 is the first «extragalactic» globular
ever discovered (by Charles Messier in 1778), or a recent immigrant to the globular
cluster system of our Milky Way
galaxy.