Sentences with phrase «in modern galaxies»

Not exact matches

Chemical calculations show that helium hydride should be visible in clouds around distant galaxies and supernovas, or even in modern planetary nebulas (shells of gas expelled by aged, sunlike stars).

As astronomers poke around for galaxies so far away (and so far back in time), they hope to find the seeds of what eventually became modern galaxies.

About 70 percent of galaxies in the modern universe display spiral arms.

Modern astronomers have yet to see one in our Milky Way but have managed to witness a few dozen in nearby galaxies with known progenitor stars.

However, starlight from the galaxies is invisible to the human eye and most modern telescopes due to other known factors that reduce visible and ultraviolet light in the universe.

A major astrophysical mystery has centred on how massive, quiescent elliptical galaxies, common in the modern Universe, quenched their once furious rates of star formation.

Now, in a roundtable discussion hosted by The Kavli Foundation, three astrophysicists, including a member of the team that made the discovery, explain why this important finding will help unravel the secrets of our modern universe's origins, as well as the mysterious connection between galaxies and monstrous black holes.

There aren't any monstrous galaxies left in the modern Universe, but astronomers believe that these young galaxies matured into giant elliptical galaxies which are seen in the modern Universe.

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The Messier Catalog in his modern form contains 40 galaxies, all but the two Magellanic Clouds that have been found up to 1782.

Almost everyone in every modern society knows about Luke Skywalker and his quest to understand the force, in order to save his family, friends, and without realizing it the galaxy.

In 2008, the legacy of the Guardians came to the modern Marvel Universe when a rag tag band of heroes banded together to defend the galaxy in the aftermath of the «Annihilation: Conquest» event and discovered an alternate reality member of the original Guardians had travelled back to the presenIn 2008, the legacy of the Guardians came to the modern Marvel Universe when a rag tag band of heroes banded together to defend the galaxy in the aftermath of the «Annihilation: Conquest» event and discovered an alternate reality member of the original Guardians had travelled back to the presenin the aftermath of the «Annihilation: Conquest» event and discovered an alternate reality member of the original Guardians had travelled back to the present.

Mass Effect Andromeda sees BioWare's space opera embark in a new titular galaxy on modern platforms PS4 and Xbox One, as well as returning to PC.