Sentences with phrase «intergalactic space»

Less than a month after reaching its final orbit, Chandra began sending back stunning images of gigantic stellar explosions and powerful x-ray jets blasting 200,000 light years into intergalactic space from distant quasars.

Normally, this highly ionized gas would be opaque to radiation, but since the universe had expanded and cooled, the plasma was so dispersed that light from the galaxies traveled through intergalactic space mostly unimpeded.

That is a little like the puzzlement that greeted the discovery of Hanny's Voorwerp, a curious gas cloud found floating in intergalactic space in 2007.

Far away from the galaxies, at right, is a patch of intergalactic space where many star clusters are forming.

But before you get too excited about sweet intergalactic space battles or taking an extraterrestrial buddy for a spin around the neighborhood on the handlebars of your Huffy, you should probably know that NASA doesn't think the kind of life we'll find will look like David Bowie.

Some 60 million light - years in length, this thread funnels all kinds of matter — visible and not — from intergalactic space into a giant cluster of galaxies called MACS J0717.5 +3745.

«It is likely that much of the Milky Way's matter was in other galaxies before it was kicked out by a powerful wind, traveled across intergalactic space and eventually found its new home in the Milky Way.»

They are working on Intergalactic Space Princess - a hyperactive adventure game about mistaken identity.

Astronomers hope to continue adding telescopes to the system to search for alien transmissions, but in the meantime, they are also surveying intergalactic space for «missing» star - forming gas and other astronomical phenomena.

Mankind is ready for intergalactic space travel.

Intergalactic Space Adventures was obviously for the child (or what Disney would call «family») audiences.

Jets are narrow streams of gas that emerge from the cores of some galaxies, travel at more than 99 percent the speed of light, and penetrate as much as several million light - years into intergalactic space before fanning out into broad, luminous lobes.

The metal - rich gas expelled from the galaxy's disk pollutes its halo as well as intergalactic space.

«Ultimately, FRBs that can be traced to their cosmic host galaxies offer a unique way to probe intergalactic space that allow us to count the bulk of the electrons that inhabit our Universe,» study co-author Matthew Bailes from the Swinburne University of Technology in Australia, said in the statement.

Cherie Davidson is a Melbourne - based jack - of - all - trades game developer, currently working as a producer & programmer on Intergalactic Space Princess and Paperbark.

The light that broke up the early universe's gas and made intergalactic space transparent probably came from binary star systems

The first «mountain heist train» scene is epic offering a fast - paced over-the-top run away intergalactic space train — that can easily race sideways.

The discovery provides new and exciting information that could better our understanding of some astrophysics, including how certain galaxies obtain their shapes [4]; how intergalactic space becomes enriched with heavy elements [5]; and even from where unexplained cosmic infrared background radiation may arise [6].

«Nearly half of all visible matter is thought to be thinly spread throughout intergalactic space.

Given the redshift of the light from this stellar explosion — which occurred about 10 billion years ago, when the universe was one third its current size — the object appeared much brighter than it would have been if [dust filling intergalactic space simply made the supernovae appear dim, as some researchers had proposed].

Also, the associated gamma - ray emission coming from the galaxy clusters and intergalactic space matches the unexplained part of the diffuse high - energy gamma - ray background that is not associated with one particular type of active galactic nucleus.»

But calculations of the amount of ionized hydrogen in intergalactic space depend on the ionization rate for the background radiation, and a lower ionization rate would mean less ionized hydrogen.

Look overhead at that hour and you are peering straight out of our galaxy into comparatively open intergalactic space.

Jets are narrow streams of gas that emergefrom the cores of some galaxies, travel at more than 99 percent thespeed of light, and penetrate as much as several million light - yearsinto intergalactic space before fanning out into broad, luminous lobes.How might a black - hole whirlpool generate such a pair of waterspouts?Swirling bundles of magnetic field lines, flinging particles outwardfrom the poles of the hole, provide a natural explanation.

When a pair of binary stars gets too close to the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, the intense gravitational field tears the pair apart, dragging one star inward and flinging the other out toward intergalactic space.

Only a few so - called hypervelocity stars are known to travel with velocities so high that they are unbound, meaning they will not orbit the galaxy, but instead will escape its gravity to wander intergalactic space.

It is about nine times the mass of our Sun, about 35 million years old, and it is zooming away from the Milky Way and Large Magellanic Cloud into intergalactic space at 1.6 million miles per hour (2.6 million km / hour).

Sidenote: Colloidal silver can also be used on animals and intergalactic space creatures.

STX unveiled the cast of the upcoming Peter Chelson - directed untitled intergalactic space romance on Friday, with Gary Oldman, Carla Gugino and Britt Robertson joining the previously announced Asa Butterfield.

Marvel is in talks with Slither / Super James Gunn to direct their superhero intergalactic space opera Guardians of the Galaxy.

The film spends eighty percent of its running time telling you the mostly unnecessarily detailed history of the Green Lantern Corps, which I'll try to bullet point as best as I can here: Planet Oa is the home plant of the Corps, which are basically intergalactic space cops.

Also, we're promised more intergalactic space treaty bollocks, as well as a first look a footage already secretly shot, in what the other famous beard describes as, «Just as shite as the last three I made ``.

What's more is that these zones are connected via intergalactic space routes, adding even more diversity to the gameplay mix.

The thought of scouring alien landscapes for secrets while blasting intergalactic space pirates is enough to make me feel like a swarm of Ridleys is fluttering away in my stomach.

The trailer showed an N7 officer traversing through several intergalactic spaces using something like a wormhole, before arriving on a desert battlefield.

Defending the Earth from intergalactic space fighters, hunting down wish - granting dragons, and more spiky hair than a 90s boy band.

Rigo 23's Autonomous Intergalactic Space Program which is part of the exhibition, Mundos Alternos: Art and Science Fiction in the Americas at UCR ARTSBLOCK, was included in Art Forum's Critics» Picks.

Looking out through the width of the pancake, you see stars and more stars beyond; looking in other directions, you peer toward the inky depths of intergalactic space.

New studies suggest lonely planets flying through intergalactic space were formed by star - destroying supermassive black holes.

But carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, and even nickel and iron have been detected in intergalactic space, far from the nearest star.

Using Keck Observatory's Keck I telescope in Hawaii, they observed a very large, luminous nebula of gas extending about 2 million light - years across intergalactic space, which they nicknamed the «Slug Nebula» in honor of UCSC's banana slug mascot.

As star activity expels gas into intergalactic space, galaxies lose precious raw material to make new stars.

Scientists refer to this area as intergalactic space.

«Ultimately, FRBs that can be traced to their cosmic host galaxies offer a unique way to probe intergalactic space that allow us to count the bulk of the electrons that inhabit our Universe,» Professor Bailes said.

A team studying three galaxies that formed over 11 billion years ago observed them all sucking up cold, primordial hydrogen and helium gas from intergalactic space and churning out new stars in their central, star - making regions.

Our solar system will continue orbiting the galactic core... at least until our galaxy collides with the Andromeda galaxy in a few billion years, at which point our system may be thrown into intergalactic space... not that that would have much effect on us, other than changing the view of our galaxy.