Sentences with phrase «irregular galaxy which»

Not exact matches

That is why the researchers focused on elliptical galaxies, which have less obscuring material than spiral and irregular ones.

The image, which shows gas, dust and stars spread across the sky in a disorderly and irregular jumble, also reveals several other, far more distant galaxies that appear as fuzzy shapes in the background.

These events occur disproportionately often in dwarf irregular galaxies, which are thought to be similar to some of the earliest galaxies that populated the universe.

They hope to localize more bursts to see whether they usually live in dwarf irregular galaxies, and whether they all appear alongside steady radio sources, both of which would support the newborn - magnetar theory.

IC 1574 (right) is an irregular dwarf galaxy which is also at the back of this group.

ESO 407 - 18 (left) is an irregular dwarf galaxy which like NGC 55 is at the front of the Sculptor Group about 6 or 7 million light years from us.

Subsequently, however, an even more distant quasar with a tentative redshift of z = 6.40 was announced on January 9, 2003, near the SDSS detection limit of a redshift of z ~ 6.5 for bright quasars, and other teams of astronomers detected even more distant, fast - star - forming irregular proto - galaxies, including: gravitationally - lensed HCM 6A behind galaxy cluster Abell 370 with a redshift of z ~ 6.56, which appears to be converting about 40 Solar - masses into stars annually; (PhysicsWeb; IFA press release; Hu et al, 2002, in pdf; and erratum); and the possible «superwind - galaxy» LAE J1044 - 0130 (Subaru press release; and Ajiki et al, 2002, in pdf).

These are two minor galaxies in the same constellation Sagittarius, which are of different type: The difference between these types is that dwarf irregulars still have interstellar matter and / or young stars while the dwarf elliptical have only an old yellowish stellar population.