Sentences with phrase «known galaxy clusters»

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God: You know how all that matter, that was generated after the bang, has started to clump and form all these cool features, like stars and galaxies, and even clusters of galaxies?

Without Nothingness hemming together all of the celestial pageantries» clusters of galaxies in nebulas, ever forming solar systems, Life as we know would never have been able to be and therefore become.

Without Nothingness hemming together all of the celestial pageantries» clusters of galaxies in nebulas forming solar systems, Life as we know would never have been able to be and therefore become.

While peering through one of the clusters, Abell 2744, astronomers recently found a candidate for one of the most distant galaxies known, a toddler growing up about 500 million years after the Big Bang.

Lotz is leading a three - year effort, known as the Frontier Fields project, to stare at six massive clusters with the Hubble Space Telescope and hunt for the seeds of galaxies similar to our own.

But there are plenty of smaller clusters and long rivers of galaxies, known as galaxy filaments, that fiddle with the light and create weak lenses.

Using observations from several telescopes, Yale University astronomer Pieter van Dokkum and colleagues studied 10 bright clumps of stars within the galaxy, known as globular clusters, and measured their velocities.

The scattered stars are no longer bound to any one galaxy, and drift freely between galaxies in the cluster.

Astronomers first discovered a hint of this cometlike ball of gas careering through a distant cluster of galaxies called Abell 3266 two years ago, but they didn't know what to make of it.

While a typical galaxy contains billions of stars, a number of tiny galaxies have been found in recent years that do not fit the classic picture and instead resemble the groups of stars known as star clusters.

Sometimes credit didn't come because, as far as we know, he was wrong: his idea that «tired light» and not an expansion of the universe might be the cause of the lengthening of wavelengths from distant galaxies, or his insistence that galaxy clusters didn't belong to superclusters.

«In contrast to the well - studied galaxies in clusters — the «cities» of the universe — we know relatively little about the properties of galaxies in voids.»

Based on observational knowledge, the researchers knew that supermassive black holes propel cosmic gases with a lot of energy while also «blowing» this gas away from galaxy clusters.

Scientists already know that MOND can not explain other phenomena that dark matter can, such as the patterns seen in the cosmic microwave background or the clustering of galaxies.

They have proposed that the galactic double is a recent arrival to the cluster, and is currently falling in towards the cluster centre and the galaxy Messier 87 lurking there — one of the most massive galaxies known.

The Coma cluster houses nearly 20 times as many dark galaxies as previously known, researchers report.

However, through the phenomenon known as «gravitational lensing,» a massive, foreground cluster of galaxies acts as a natural «zoom lens» in space by magnifying and stretching images of far more distant background galaxies.

Known as an ultra-compact dwarf, this type of system has up to a billion stars and can be similar in mass to a galaxy, but it is compact and looks more like a star cluster.

Astronomers have long known that galaxies cluster together into enormous systems — the urban centers of the cosmos — and that the largest galaxies tend to «point» towards their neighbors.

He says that protons and neutrons (baryons) are made of quarks, stars are made of baryons, galaxies are made of stars, and there are now known to be structures on the scale not just of clusters of galaxies but superclusters and beyond.

A striking image presented here 3 June at the meeting of the American Astronomical Society shows a globular cluster known as Palomar 5 being torn asunder by tidal forces of our home galaxy.

«High - energy neutrinos are produced along with gamma rays by extremely high - energy radiation known as cosmic rays in objects like star - forming galaxies, galaxy clusters, supermassive black holes, or gamma - ray bursts.

The telescope has helped researchers detect such clusters by exploiting a phenomenon known as the Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect, which causes massive galaxy clusters to leave an impression on the cosmic microwave background: a faint, universe - spanning glow of light left over from the big bang.

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.

But critics point out that MOND can not explain the observed masses of clusters of galaxies without invoking dark matter, in the form of almost massless, known particles called neutrinos.

The early universe was a featureless soup of hot plasma that somehow grew into the dense galaxy clusters and cosmic voids we know today.

Supercomputer simulations model how galaxies and galactic clusters grow in long filamentary structures known as the cosmic web.

Astronomers have long known that at the largest scale, the universe looks like sea - foam: clusters of galaxies surrounding large, empty bubbles.

«While studying the supernova, we realised that the galaxy in which it exploded is already known to be a galaxy that is being lensed by the cluster,» explains Steve Rodney, co-author, from the University of South Carolina.

To make a clear distinction between galaxies and globular clusters, astronomers decided that true galaxies, no matter how small, must be massive enough to hold on to heavy elements.

It was once possible to confuse faint dwarf galaxies like Segue 2 with globular clusters — tightly bound clumps of stars that are also known to orbit larger galaxies like the Milky Way.

The heart of the mammoth galaxy cluster Abell 2744, also known as Pandora's Cluster, is shown in this Hubble Space Telescopecluster Abell 2744, also known as Pandora's Cluster, is shown in this Hubble Space TelescopeCluster, is shown in this Hubble Space Telescope image.

The cosmic optical illusion was due to the mass of a single galaxy within the cluster warping and magnifying the light from the distant stellar explosion in a process known as gravitational lensing [4].

Bertolami and his colleagues studied a galaxy cluster known as Abell cluster A586 to see if dark matter and normal matter fall in the same way under gravity.

The galaxy cluster known as Abell 2218, which is very massive and located between the galaxy and Earth, bent and magnified its light.

Different parent populations, such as the Milky Way disk or halo, dwarf satellite galaxies or globular clusters, are known to have radically different chemical compositions.

A long astronomical quest has come to an end with the discovery of pulsating yellow stars, known as Cepheid variables, in the Virgo cluster of galaxies.

The pair of elliptical galaxies is embedded deep inside the dense galaxy cluster known as SDSS J1531 +3414.

The cluster's powerful gravity warps the images of background galaxies into blue streaks and arcs that give the illusion of being inside the cluster, an effect known as gravitational lensing.

Explanation: Nestled within the dusty arms of the large spiral galaxy Andromeda (M31), the star cluster NGC 206 is one of the largest star forming regions known in our local group of galaxies.

Also known as NGC the Sculptor galaxy is part of a cluster of galaxies visible to observers in the Southern hemisphere.

Since the dark matter's composition is unknown and how far out it extends in the galaxies and galaxy clusters is only beginning to be mapped (and see also link), it is not known how to best incorporate it into the computer simulations.

The new discovery is one of the only known cases of a wet merger at the core of a galaxy cluster, and the most distant example ever found.

NASA said the background galaxy has been magnified, distorted and multiply imaged by the gravity of the galaxy cluster in a process known as gravitational lensing.

Lying some 40,000 light - years from Earth in the constellation Pegasus, M15 is one of nearly 150 known globular clusters that form a vast halo surrounding our Milky Way galaxy.

Gravitational lensing by the giant cluster brightened the light from the newfound galaxy, known as MACS 1149 - JD, some 15 times.

As a halo field star with the lowest metallicity known for any Milky Way star in late October 2002, HE 0107 - 5420 appears to be even older than the ancient stars found in the galaxy's globular clusters such as 47 Tucana, at left.

The newly discovered «proto - cluster» of galaxies, observed when the universe was only 1.7 billion years old (12 percent of its present age), is one of the most massive structures known at that distance.

Astronomers spotted four separate images of the supernova in a rare arrangement known as an «Einstein Cross» around a galaxy within the cluster.

There are about 150 large galaxies in this cluster and at least a thousand known dwarf galaxies.