Sentences with phrase «in ancient galaxy»

«Astronomers find new details about star formation in ancient galaxy protoclusters.»

Not exact matches

Many of the 2012 predictions can be traced back to the mysterious end of the ancient Mayan calendar, which measured time in vast cycles, based on Earth's position within our galaxy and our galaxy's movement through the cosmos.

We are made of stardust, the scientists say — the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, and the chlorine in our skin forged in the furnaces of ancient stars whose explosions scattered the elements across the galaxy.

But in January, astronomers used optical and infrared telescopes to look back nearly to the beginning of the universe, just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, where they saw newborn ellipticals — ancient galaxies so dusty they're nearly invisible.

Far fewer tidy spirals existed in the ancient era, and far more galaxies boasted peculiar, unclassifiable shapes.

Yet the telltale chemical signatures this should have left have not been observed in the ancient stars» early descendants that roam our galaxy.

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.

But new observations from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed ancient stars mingled with the young ones, proving the galaxy as a whole is in fact as old as its neighbors.

VLF waves might reveal «fossil» galaxies that were once highly active; they could also be used to map ancient supernova remnants in the Milky Way.

A distant, ancient galaxy far more massive than our own formed all its stars in less than half a billion years

Astronomers are now using the largest existing telescopes on the ground and in space to better assess the composition, size and shape of the newly discovered ancient galaxies.

Somewhere in that region, Finkelstein says, Webb might spy anywhere between a few to perhaps 50 extremely ancient galaxies.

Webb — custom - built to study these murky epochs — could use gravitational lensing to unveil these and even older galaxies in sufficient detail and number to pin down exactly how these ancient objects arose and first brought light into the universe.

But in my opinion, the fairest of them all is the Cosmic Horseshoe found in the Sloan survey in 2007: light from an ancient blue galaxy draped 300 degrees around a red galaxy 10 times heavier than the Milky Way.

They found four smudges of light — possibly galaxies — in the area, as well as a blob - shaped galaxy full of ancient stars on the region's periphery.

Aging red giant stars coexist with their more plentiful younger cousins, the smaller, white, Sun - like stars, in this crowded region of our galaxy's ancient central hub, or bulge.

Among the stunning shots taken this week were those of the Lagoon Nebula, about 3600 light years away from Earth; the 47 Tucanae cluster of several million ancient stars about 15,000 light years from Earth; and the face - on barred spiral galaxy NGC 6744 in the star - rich southern constellation of Pavo, about 30 million light years away.

Astronomers now believe that ancient supernova explosions probably blasted these bubbles in the fabric of the galaxy.

That's exactly how two astronomers from Seoul National University in Korea found an ancient, relatively close galaxy — by combing other researchers» leftovers.

But there will also undoubtedly be shocks, like the sighting of ancient quasars and the discovery of cannibal galaxies — and that is what really motivates the people who run the hardest - working telescope in the world.

Most of the galaxy's stars, including the sun, reside in a thin, pancake - shaped disk, but ancient stars populate a halo surrounding the disk.

This concentrically expanding system, as ancient as it is enormous, provides a wonderful example of the intricate, interrelated structures that are sculpted in galaxies by the lives and deaths of stars.

The team found only two candidates for baby black holes in thousands of ancient galaxies (arxiv.org/abs/1603.08522).

Two blobs spotted in the distant, ancient universe may be the seeds of the supermassive black holes that now dominate the core of every galaxy.

«I didn't believe the ancient galaxy hypothesis initially, but finally I was surprised because it's not that common to find what you predict in astronomy,» Beasley added.

Astronomers have put NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on an Indiana Jones - type quest to uncover an ancient «relic galaxy» in our own cosmic backyard.

Star formation is also evident in the thin thread that connects the two galaxies: a bridge of stars created by the ancient crash, stretching over the 24,000 light - years that currently separate the fated pair.

These ancient black holes proved to be proportionately much heavier than those in the present - day universe — about 3 percent of the galaxy's mass.

For this reason, the galaxy - hole pairings seen by Carilli's team might not be representative of the ancient universe, in which case the question of which came first remains unanswered.

A pair of gas clouds in a nearby galaxy appears to be the tortured remains of two ancient gamma - ray bursts.

If we could carefully measure the number and energy (wavelength) of all those photons — not only at the present time, but also back in time — we might learn important secrets about the nature and evolution of the Universe, including how similar or different ancient galaxies were compared to the galaxies we see today.

The Force is described to Luke in the original Star Wars as the source of a Jedi knight's powers, «an energy field created by all living things» that binds us and the galaxy together, and derided by an Imperial officer as «sorcerer's way» and an «ancient religion.»

STScI / NASA press releases: Hubble Makes the First Precise Distance Measurement to an Ancient Globular Star Cluster Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Deepest View of Space Yields Young Stars in Andromeda Halo Hubble Identifies Source of Ultraviolet Light in an Old Galaxy ESA press releases: Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Four Unusual Views of the Andromeda Galaxy Public speaking: On the Trail of the Missing Galaxies High - Level Science Products from Large and Treasury Programs: GO - 9453: The Age of the Andromeda Halo (126 orbits) GO - 10265: The Formation History of Andromeda (107 orbits) GO - 10816: The Formation History of Andromeda's Extended Metal - Poor Halo (128 orbits) GO - 11664 / 12666: The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury Program: Populations, Formation History and Planets (56 orbits) GO - 12549: The Formation History of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies (113 orbits)

ALMA can detect this dust from the early Universe, which is present in the most distant and ancient galaxies, thanks to submillimeter wavelengths.

Scientists using the Magellan telescopes in Chile observed nine stars (circled) in the ancient dwarf galaxy Reticulum II.

Older worlds with planetary companions may be the place to find the most ancient life in the galaxy, according to a new study.

In addition, the images also reveal an ancient galaxy cluster — a densely populated «galaxy city» formed when the universe was just 3 billion years old.

R - process enrichment from a single event in an ancient dwarf galaxy.

The destruction of a planet may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a team of astronomers has found evidence that this may have happened in an ancient globular cluster of stars at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy.

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

The astronomers had expected to find a number of ancient galaxies known as ellipticals, but instead discovered that, out of the 800,000 sample galaxies included in the study, 53 of the brightest examples were in fact spiral - shaped.

As a halo field star with the lowest metallicity known for any Milky Way star in late October 2002, HE 0107 - 5420 appears to be even older than the ancient stars found in the galaxy's globular clusters such as 47 Tucana, at left.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — Using the world's largest telescopes, researchers discovered ancient cold gas clouds larger than galaxies in the early Universe.

Shepard feels the burden not only of that child's death, but of the death of every one of his friends and, most of all, the deaths of all those he leaves behind on Earth as he sets off to complete his final and most important mission: to unite the galaxy under one banner anc construct an ancient super-weapon that is your only hope against the giant, ruthless machines that are now wiping out every trace of life in the galaxy.

The story pack also includes a reworked AI Endgame Crisis called The Contingency and a new Fallen Empire that may spawn in your galaxy — the Ancient Caretakers — made up of machines with a mysterious purpose.

Flinthook puts you in the shoes of the the titular character - the galaxy's smallest space pirate - and tasks you with stopping a malevolent treasure hunter from unleashing an ancient evil across the universe.

As for the stand - in for mass relays, instead there's ancient Remnant technology from a mysterious, advanced race that can cleanse a planet's atmosphere, acting as a new tool and source of technological intrigue that works well within the fiction of arriving in a hostile new galaxy.

Events aren't hard to follow as the plot of Guardians is unashamedly generic (ancient master race, domination of the galaxy etc) but the game isn't interested in making friends who haven't swallowed its predecessors whole.

Set in the year 2183, players take on the role of Commander Shepard, a soldier who must put together a team of intergalactic allies to stop the onslaught of an ancient race of aliens from wiping out all life in the galaxy.

In Mass Effect 3, an ancient alien race known only as «Reapers», has launched an all - out invasion of the galaxy, leaving nothing but a trail of destruction in their wakIn Mass Effect 3, an ancient alien race known only as «Reapers», has launched an all - out invasion of the galaxy, leaving nothing but a trail of destruction in their wakin their wake.