Sentences with phrase «giant galaxy centaurus»
RIGHT ROUND Dwarf galaxies near the giant galaxy Centaurus A, shown here in a composite of images from three different telescopes, seem to orbit it in an unexpectedly organized loop.
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That suggests the galaxies are orbiting Centaurus A as if stuck to a giant cosmic turntable.
GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD The most likely galaxy to host habitable planets might be a giant elliptical such as ESO 325 - G004 (pictured, center), which is about 450 million light - years away in the constellation Centaurus.
About 1,000 light - years across, the twisted cosmic dust cloud apparently shaped like a parallelogram is likely the result of a smaller spiral galaxy falling into the giant Centaurus A.
On June 16, 2010, the Hubble Heritage Project released a very detailed, composite image of the dark lanes of dust crisscrossing the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Taken on July 10, 2010 with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, the panchromatic image of ultraviolet through near - infrared wavelengths shows new details such as bluish clusters of young massive stars and reddish gas nebulae undergoing star birth normally obscured by dust.
Some of the dust inside Centaurus A maps out what appears to be a barred spiral galaxy, which has recently merged with its giant elliptical host and is feeding gas into the host's central hole to produce bi-polar jets that are bright in radio wavelengths (more from APOD and ESA).