Sentences with phrase «in nearby clusters»

While fireworks only last a short time here on Earth, a bundle of cosmic sparklers in a nearby cluster of stars will be going off for a very long time.

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In fact, the distribution pattern they found showed two distinct clusters of artifacts, one near some stone slabs, which they interpret as the remnants of a burial platform, and another in the nearby depression where the hikers found the Iceman's bodIn fact, the distribution pattern they found showed two distinct clusters of artifacts, one near some stone slabs, which they interpret as the remnants of a burial platform, and another in the nearby depression where the hikers found the Iceman's bodin the nearby depression where the hikers found the Iceman's body.
The globular clusters M15 (left) in our Milky Way and G1 in the nearby Andromeda galaxy both harbor medium - size black holes at their cores.
Now, Hubble has done just that for two globular clusters: M15, in our Milky Way, and G1, in the nearby Andromeda galaxy.
That's also the distance to most stars in the nearby Big Dipper, which makes it likely that they all belong to the same association, or loose star cluster.
This image from the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at La Silla, shows the cluster and the gas clouds surrounding it, which glow in orange and red hues due to the radiation coming from nearby hot stars.
Exoplanets have also been found in the past two years in the clusters NGC 6811 and Messier 44, and even more recently one has also been detected in the bright and nearby Hyades cluster.
Lauer and his colleagues began their survey of galaxy clusters in order to find the «great attractor», a concentrated mass supposedly responsible for the net motion of nearby galaxies.
Remarkably, the distribution of star - forming galaxies around a cluster of galaxies in the more distant universe (5 billion years ago) corresponds much more closely with the weak lensing map than a slice of the more nearby universe (3 billion years ago).
The brightest object in a nearby star cluster, thought for decades to be a single star, is actually two massive stars in the process of merging.
While astronomers have identified many nearby clusters, they need to go further back in time to understand how these structures are formed.
These rare systems — only a few tens were known until recently — were thought to have had their outer coats of stars ripped away by the gravity of other, larger galaxies as they passed nearby, a theory supported by the fact that they were usually found in the centers of large clusters of galaxies.
These nearby objects include the Local Supercluster, a vast assemblage of galaxies to which our Galaxy, the Milky Way, belongs and the coma cluster, a galaxy cluster that lies a few hundred million light years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices.
Now Andrew Gould and Jens Villumsen of Ohio State University in Columbus argue that the gravity of nearby galaxy clusters should distort the light from distant galaxies in a way that depends on W.
Over billions of years, they build up structure in the universe — merging with adjacent clusters, like growing cities absorb nearby towns.
Last month, at a meeting at the University of Maryland, Ozernoy presented calculations of how Sagittarius A * pulls in material from a nearby cluster of hot blue stars.
The Substellar Objects in Nearby Young Clusters (SONYC) survey included the star cluster NGC 1333, 1000 light years away in the constellation of Perseus.
In reality, NGC 1559 is physically nowhere near the LMC in space — in fact, it truly is a loner, lacking the company of any nearby galaxies or membership of any galaxy clusteIn reality, NGC 1559 is physically nowhere near the LMC in space — in fact, it truly is a loner, lacking the company of any nearby galaxies or membership of any galaxy clustein space — in fact, it truly is a loner, lacking the company of any nearby galaxies or membership of any galaxy clustein fact, it truly is a loner, lacking the company of any nearby galaxies or membership of any galaxy cluster.
Some ellipticals are present in the central part of the cluster including a giant elliptical at the center (M87) that has become so large by gobbling up nearby galaxies that were attracted by its enormous gravity.
Gillian Wilson, professor of physics and astronomy at UC Riverside, added, «Fascinatingly, however, the study found that the percentage of galaxies which had stopped forming stars in those young, distant clusters, was much lower than the percentage found in much older, nearby clusters.
A nearby companion galaxy, NGC 5195, off the edge of this image, gravitational pull is triggering star formation in the main galaxy, as seen in brilliant detail by numerous, luminous clusters of young and energetic stars.
His scientific research has focused on dwarf spheroidal galaxies, stellar populations in the Milky Way galaxy and nearby galaxies, globular clusters, chemical evolution of galaxies, and dark matter.
Because it is above the atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope can detect these small dead stars in nearby old star clusters called globular clusters.
The protocluster is likely to evolve, over 12 billion years, into a system much like the nearby Coma cluster of galaxies, shown in the image below.
These structures can be traced over more than 80 million light - years in the COSMOS survey - approximately five times the extent of the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster.
The menu of options presented to the public includes out - of - boundary «set - asides» for low - income students and a version of «controlled choice» that would replace neighborhood school assignments with a lottery system to place children in one of a cluster of nearby schools.
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The cabin in my Touring - grade tester set the stage with a partially - digital instrument cluster, a wide - screen central command touch interface with Android Auto, a nearby wireless charging pad, and a head up display, which looks markedly better than one I recently used in a $ 185,000 BMW.
True to their marketing slogan, only Panja Resort offers unobstructed views of the rolling hills, mountains, forests and the cluster of islands in nearby Honda Bay all in one picturesque panorama.
Surin Beach features the classy StereoLab while nearby Cherng Talay has a cluster of bars in Tinlay Place near to the Laguna entrance but other than that this area is quiet.
These waters are relatively sheltered, allowing you to concentrate on the rugged mountains of mainland BC in the distance and the outlandishly colorful sea anemones clustered on nearby rocks.
Clustered nearby, Holley's newest suite of assemblage sculptures — all produced during a residency at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation — playfully merge natural and machined materials into potent abstract configurations, as in Sun on It, From the Ocean to the Air and Bending (all 2014).
In fact, a small cluster of buttons on the control panel offers you the ability to use the microphone to record better sounding audio onto an SD card that you place into a nearby SD card slot.
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