Sentences with phrase «illuminated by quasars»
«It is really amazing that this discovery was made the same night of the Slug Nebula while we were hunting for giant Lyman alpha nebulae illuminated by quasars — my first night at Keck Observatory and definitely the most exciting observing night I have ever had!»
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As seen from Keck Observatory, the green colors highlight the energetic gas across the galaxy that is being illuminated by the quasar.
Not exact matches
The galaxy hosts a bright quasar that may have illuminated the ghostly structure by hitting it with a beam of light from hot gas around a central black hole.
This image combines observations from the Very Large Telescope, tuned to detect the fluorescent emissions produced by the quasar illuminating the dark galaxies, with colour data from the Digitized Sky Survey 2.