Sentences with phrase «halo of the galaxy»

In the late 1980s, Bodhan Paczynski of Princeton University and several other astronomers realized there was a way to detect unseen compact bodies that might be lurking in the halo of our galaxy.

The findings suggested that, with the standard theory of the big bang, there is not enough baryonic material to make the brown dwarfs that fill the haloes of all galaxies.

Globular clusters, which are found in the halo of a galaxy, contain considerably more stars and are much older than the less dense galactic, or open clusters, which are found in the disk.

Globular clusters are usually spherically shaped and are often found in the halos of galaxies.

Globular clusters are ancient balls of stars that exist in the halo of galaxies.

However, for the first time the chemical properties of the external regions of the halo of our galaxy were explored with high resolution spectroscopy in the optical of a sample of 28 red giant stars at large distances from the Sun.

MACHOs are large objects that reside in the halos of galaxies but elude detection because they have such low luminosities.

The ratios of surface brightness at 90 um to that at 140 um suggest that the temperatures of the dust in the halo are getting higher in the regions far from the disk, implying that there exist extra dust heating sources in the halo of the galaxy.

We have clearly detected FIR dust emission extended in the halo of the galaxy; there are two filamentary emission structures extending from the galactic disk up to 9 kpc in the northern and 6 kpc in the northwestern direct... ▽ More We present new far - infrared (FIR) images of the edge - on starburst galaxy NGC253 obtained with the Far - Infrared Surveyor (FIS) onboard AKARI at wavelengths of 90 um and 140 um.

We have clearly detected FIR dust emission extended in the halo of the galaxy; there are two filamentary emission structures extending from the galactic disk up to 9 kpc in the northern and 6 kpc in the northwestern direction.

It separates two models of the dark matter distribution in the halo of a galaxy like our Milky Way.