Sentences with phrase «large galaxies including»

But astronomers also know that much larger, supermassive black holes lie at the heart of large galaxies including the Milky Way, where Sagittarius A * weighs as much as 4 million suns.

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The Triangulum Galaxy is the third - largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, and about 50 other smaller galaxies.

Supermassive black holes live in the heart of large galaxies, including our own Milky Way, and can be millions or even billions of times the mass of the sun.

In «Our Place in the Cosmos,» the astronomers Noam I. Libeskind and R. Brent Tully detail the discovery of Laniakea, a supercluster of about 100,000 large galaxies that includes our own Milky Way and spans nearly a half - billion light years.

For the past two years, a group calling itself the MACHO collaboration, which includes astronomers in the US, Australia and Britain, has monitored the brightness of stars in the central «bulge» of our Galaxy and in a satellite galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud.

Research at Case Western Reserve University's telescope concentrates on the large - scale distribution of galaxies, including the vast, near - empty cosmic regions known as voids.

Most large spiral galaxies, including our Milky Way, have a halo of invisible, or dark, matter surrounding the visible stars.

Big spiral galaxies like the Milky Way are known to tear up and devour their neighbours, including some of the Large Magellanic Cloud's brethren.

Some ellipticals are present in the central part of the cluster including a giant elliptical at the center (M87) that has become so large by gobbling up nearby galaxies that were attracted by its enormous gravity.

The Milky Way Galaxy may be as large as Andromeda, another spiral galaxy that was previously believed to be the largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way and its satellite galaxies.

This is the deepest large mm - wave dataset in existence and has already led to many groundbreaking science results, including the first galaxy clusters detected through their Sunyaev - Zel «dovich effect signature, the most sensitive measurement yet of the small - scale CMB power spectrum, and the discovery of a population of ultra-bright, high - redshift, star - forming galaxies.

By developing and bringing to bear innovative spectroscopic and high resolution imaging instruments on large ground - based telescopes and space telescopes, he and his team have been studying massive black holes in the centers of galaxies (including our own), galactic star formation over cosmic time, and the evolution of galaxies in the Early Universe.

The Very Large Array takes spectral data of our neighboring galaxy, M33, which includes information about the movement of hydrogen atoms.

The Zooniverse is the world's largest and most successful scientific crowdsourcing platform, engaging more than 800,000 volunteers in tasks including classifying galaxies, discovering planets, and mapping star formation in the Milky Way.

In the majority of cases, the ALMA observations alone could pinpoint the distances, but for a few galaxies the team combined the ALMA data with measurements from other telescopes, including the Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) and ESO's Very Large Telescope [1].

Over at least two years, TESS will survey more than 200,000 stars, and will be able to find many new exoplanets orbiting these stars, including Earth - sized and super-Earth-sized (larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune), which are now known to be the most common in our galaxy.

His research interests include cosmology, the cosmic microwave background, large - scale structure, reionization, galaxy clusters, and the Sunyaev - Zel» dovich effect.

In addition to the release of their astounding infrared mosaic of the inner galaxy, the Spitzer team had a separate release this week to announce some conclusions about the Milky Way spiral structure, including a larger bar and a reduction to two major spiral arms.

The consensus is that several factors are important: atmospheric composition (the concentrations of carbon dioxide, methane); changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun known as Milankovitch cycles (and possibly the Sun's orbit around the galaxy); the motion of tectonic plates resulting in changes in the relative location and amount of continental and oceanic crust on the Earth's surface, which could affect wind and ocean currents; variations in solar output; the orbital dynamics of the Earth - Moon system; and the impact of relatively large meteorites, and volcanism including eruptions of supervolcanoes.

Examples of science projects enabled by the data in the High - Latitude Survey include: mapping the formation of cosmic structure in the first billion years after the Big Bang via the detection and characterization of over 10,000 galaxies at z > 8; finding over 2,000 QSOs at z > 7; quantifying the distribution of dark matter on intermediate and large scales through lensing in clusters and in the field; identifying the most extreme star - forming galaxies and shock - dominated systems at 1 < z < 2; carrying out a complete census of star - forming galaxies and the faint end of the QSO luminosity function at z ~ 2, including their contribution to the ionizing radiation; and determining the kinematics of stellar streams in the Local Group through proper motions.

These included the nearest region to us, the Orion Nebula found in the sword of the Orion constellation, and the enormous Rosette Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud dwarf galaxy that orbits our giant spiral galaxy, the Milky Way.

Abstract: The edge - on starburst galaxy M82 exhibits complicated distributions of gaseous materials in its halo, which include ionized superwinds driven by nuclear starbursts, neutral materials entrained by the superwinds, and large - scale neutral streamers probably caused by a past tidal interaction with M81.

Messier 31 is the largest and most massive member of the Local Group of galaxies, which also includes the Milky Way, the Triangulum Galaxy (M33) and more than 40 smaller galaxies.

These include observations of the microwave background radiation — the relic radiation of the early universe — and surveys of astronomical objects — galaxies, quasars, supernovae, gamma - ray bursters,... — over large fractions of the sky out to large fractions of the radius of the observable universe.

The new GALAXY S5 phone has been launched with a number of updated features, including a larger screen than its predecessor, at 5.1 inches (12.95 cm) and a sharper camera, with a resolution of 16 megapixels, up from 13 megapixels.