Sentences with phrase «key to understanding galaxy»

The structure and internal motions of the stellar disk of a spiral galaxy hold important keys to understanding the galaxy's formation history.

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However understanding how systems like our galaxy came into being continues to remain a key question in the history of the cosmos.

Dwarf satellite galaxies, therefore, are considered key to understanding dark matter and the process by which larger galaxies form.

New observations show that tiny galaxies in the early universe could have triggered the epoch of reionization — a period when harsh radiation tore apart hydrogen atoms — which astronomers consider key to understanding how stars and galaxies arose from the universe's early dark void.

He sets the scene: «Globular clusters and their constituent stars are keys to understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies.

«Recent observational and theoretical studies show that the distribution of gas is key to understanding the evolution of galaxies,» explains Hayashi.

That huge camera means the telescope would be able to gather the staggering amount of detailed information about galaxy size, shape and location that astronomers think will be key to understanding how dark matter and dark energy shape the universe.

This portion of the spectrum, which is more energetic than most radio waves yet less energetic than visible and infrared light, holds the key to understanding a great variety of fundamental processes, including planet and star formation, and the formation and evolution of galaxies and galaxy clusters in the early Universe.

Although early galaxies played a key role in our own cosmic history, understanding them has remained a daunting challenge: they are extraordinarily faint and all of their light has been shifted by the expansion of the Universe to infrared wavelengths and beyond.

They are some of the most distant objects discovered in the observable universe, making them key to understanding the formation of the cosmos we inhabit — especially the early stages when the first stars and galaxies burst into existence.