Sentences with phrase «in distant galaxies»
But there's a star in a distant galaxy that is refusing to fade gently into the night after an explosive death.
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Recent evidence showed they are enormous explosions in distant galaxies, but no one knew what was exploding.
Also of keen interest are the transient astronomical events that appear suddenly in the sky when these explosions occur in distant galaxies.
The jets have turned up everywhere in the past decade, from nearby neutron stars to black holes in distant galaxies.
Why not any of the hundreds of other creator gods, or the god of some aliens living in a distant galaxy that we've never heard of before?
An international team studying gas clouds in a distant galaxy has found that the temperature of the gas matches almost exactly what models predicted for the young cosmos.
Brian Schmidt and Robert Kirshner of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Ronald Eastman of Lick Observatory in California, and their colleagues obtained a new estimate of the Hubble constant from observations of a supernova in a distant galaxy in the constellation of Cetus.
Following the hydrogen molecules is exactly what Fabian Walter of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and his colleagues have done, taking an image that includes spectral information (allowing, in fact, for an enhanced three - dimensional view) of unprecedented sensitivity with the ALMA observatory to trace the amount of molecular hydrogen in distant galaxies located in the so - called Hubble Ultra Deep Field (HUDF), one of the best - studied regions of the sky.
«The amazing thing is that in this distant galaxy in the young Universe the conditions are just right for enough of the fast moving hot gas to cool to the low temperatures that Claudia and her team have found.»
A furious spawning of the equivalent of 1,000 Suns per year in a distant galaxy dubbed the Cloverleaf may be typical of galaxies in the early Universe, the scientists say.
However, because they occur in short bursts and originate in distant galaxies — sometimes even billions of light years from Earth — scientists have not been able to exactly pinpoint what causes them.
Mass Effect: Andromeda leaves Commander Shepard behind as humanity battles to build a new home in a distant galaxy.
theo The term «aliens» implies little green men or some other sentient life that purposely did it... far different than dust of previous life in distant galaxies making it here through spce... THAT is the difference... which you already know.
Life could have existed in some distant galaxy that was since destryoed, but tiny pieces of life, some of the building blocks, could have traveled to our solar system and been deposited on our planet.
Spacetime ripples from a stellar cataclysm in a distant galaxy help explain the cosmic origins of gold, and chart the course for a new age of «multi-messenger» astronomy
The afterglows have helped astronomers determine that GRBs lie in distant galaxies.
Emitted in a distant galaxy when multicellular life was just beginning to populate Earth, the waves traveled at the speed of light for more than a billion years to at last wash over our planet last September, taking just seven milliseconds to traverse the distance between LIGO's twin listening stations in Louisiana and Washington State.
Submillimeter emissions are typically produced by carbon and water molecules in distant galaxies and star - forming regions.
Most of the catastrophic stellar explosions known as supernovae appear in distant galaxies, so they are difficult to study.
«Reconstructing the cosmic history of star formation: ALMA takes stock of the fuel for star formation in distant galaxies.»
In 2013 astronomers found argonium in space, first in the Crab Nebula and later in a distant galaxy via ALMA observations.
And the ones now being found in distant galaxies — such as a November discovery, a planet orbiting star HD 209458 in the constellation Pegasus — are assigned dry strings of numbers and letters.
Because supernovas are so powerful, they are visible even in distant galaxies, making them valuable tools for measuring the size and history of the cosmos.
Specifically, these bursts might be leakage from planet - sized transmitters powering interstellar probes in distant galaxies.
On 21 June, a dying star in a distant galaxy unleashed a siren song of x-rays so intense it briefly blinded the x-ray telescope aboard NASA's orbiting Swift observatory.
The start of a jet in the distant galaxy J1415 +1320 was magnified by a massive object in the foreground, closer to Earth.
Radio astronomers have used a radio telescope network the size of the Earth to zoom in on a unique phenomenon in a distant galaxy: a jet activated by a star being consumed by a supermassive black hole.
The activity of these ULXs in distant galaxies is very similar to a mysterious object in our own Milky Way.
What makes this particular cosmic tumult a surprise is that it isn't in a distant galaxy.
The heart of LSST is a main mirror 8.4 meters (about 28 feet) in diameter, which will, in a matter of seconds, register vanishingly faint objects in distant galaxies over an area spanning about 50 full moons.
2001: Dark Energy Hubble data on stellar explosions in distant galaxies gave astronomers their best measurement of how fast the universe is expanding.
These results will help in constraining models of Lyα radiation transfer in distant galaxies.
Unexpectedly faint Type 1a supernovae in distant galaxies led to the 1998 discovery of the accelerating expansion of the universe, on account of dark energy.
«You can see bulges in distant galaxies, but you can not resolve the very faint stars, such as the white dwarfs.
However, unless we are observing the Milky Way and very close local galaxies, we can not detect individual stars and star - forming regions in distant galaxies.
The famous telescope was named after U.S. astronomer Edwin Hubble, whose observations of variable stars in distant galaxies confirmed that the universe was expanding and gave support to the Big Bang theory.
Because the team did not see any influence of the strength of star formation in the metal enrichment in distant galaxies, it is telling that the physical condition regulating star formation in galaxies in the early Universe is possibly different from that seen in the present - day Universe.
MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — UCLA astronomers have used the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii to make the first accurate measurement of the abundance of oxygen in a distant galaxy.
This study makes the first direct comparison between the optical emission line and the ultraviolet and infrared tracers of star formation and indicates that, despite the underlying uncertainties, astronomers can trust the nebular emission lines as robust indicators of the star - formation rate and the amount of light that is obscured by dust in distant galaxies.
PULLMAN, Wash. — Three billion years ago in a distant galaxy, two massive black holes slammed together, merged into one and sent space — time vibrations, known as gravitational waves, shooting out into the universe.
Starring swearing animals and futuristic gangsters, the game will be a prequel to the original game, set in a distant galaxy before the birth of Jade.
The science fiction role - playing adventure returns, 600 years after Mass Effect 3, with a whole new cast of characters looking to find a home planet in a distant galaxy.
Astronomers have detected one more clue to the origins of gamma - ray bursts, those highly energetic explosions that occur in distant galaxies.
The shape of LIGO's signal showed it was generated by two black holes in a distant galaxy that spiralled in on one another and then coalesced about 1.3 billion years ago - the time it has taken the wave to reach Earth.
«Astronomers smash cosmic records to see hydrogen in distant galaxy.»
These gamma - ray bursts, astrophysicists recently learned, originate in distant galaxies and are unfathomably powerful — as much as 10 quadrillion (a one followed by 16 zeros) times as energetic as the sun.
Lars Bildsten, professor at UCSB's Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), and colleagues, predicted a new type of supernova in distant galaxies that would be fainter than most and would rise and fall in brightness in only a few weeks.