Sentences with phrase «into nearby galaxies»
«Theoretical studies predict that this process of galactic growth continues today, but astronomers have been unable to detect the expected low mass «building blocks» falling into nearby galaxies, until now.»
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Guyon adds that the system will help astronomers to study the skies more efficiently, by bringing large objects, such as nearby galaxies, into focus all at once, and by allowing more distant objects to be studied in a single snapshot.
The astronomers believe that AzTEC - 3 and the other nearby galaxies appear to be part of the same system, but are not yet gravitationally bound into a clearly defined cluster.
MUSE's science goals include delving into the early epochs of the Universe to probe the mechanisms of galaxy formation and studying both the motions of material in nearby galaxies and their chemical properties.
This estimate takes into account the fact that the ultraviolet irradiance of the Sun was considerably larger in the distant past, as confirmed by astronomical measurements of younger Sun - like stars in the nearby galaxy.
Taking into account that the relatively nearby (in the sky) galaxy M98 is approaching us at 125 km / sec, and thus moving at about the same peculiar velocity but, by chance, toward us, one may speculate that these two galaxies might have been involved in an encounter, but this is currently not much more than wild speculation.
Beyond our own galaxy, band 3 can be used to image molecules in nearby galaxies at high resolution, to probe the cold interstellar medium of galaxies, and to peer into dust - obscured galaxies to observe star formation.
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.
Along with John Regan of Dublin City University, CCA research fellow Eli Visbal, and colleagues, Bryan used state - of - the - art computer simulations to show how a galaxy that has just collapsed and started forming stars can irradiate a galactic partner nearby so that some of the partner galaxy's gas collapses into a black hole.
In order to hack into, what else, a giant battleship, the two young recruits are first dispatched to a nearby planet with a lavish casino run by rich arms dealers — who, it turns out, profit from supplying weapons to both sides of the galaxy's seemingly eternal good - versus - evil conflict.