Sentences with phrase «local galaxy clusters»

Work on infrared studies of local galaxy clusters took me to the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in 2007 where I won the Bok Second Prize.

Not exact matches

Our galaxy is part of a local cluster of other galaxies.

Our local group comprises Andromeda, the Magellanic Clouds and about 35 other galaxies, all of which lie in an even larger cluster called Virgo.

A composite image shows the galaxy NGC 4522 in the Virgo Cluster, the nearest large cluster of galaxies to our own local group of galaxies, and the «wake» of gas and dust being blown from the Cluster, the nearest large cluster of galaxies to our own local group of galaxies, and the «wake» of gas and dust being blown from the cluster of galaxies to our own local group of galaxies, and the «wake» of gas and dust being blown from the galaxy.

It might not be measurable on local scales, like here in the solar system, or in any matter - strewn environs, such as galaxy clusters.

The Milky Way, the galaxy we live in, is part of a cluster of more than 50 galaxies that make up the «Local Group», a collection that includes the famous Andromeda galaxy and many other far smaller objects.

These nearby objects include the Local Supercluster, a vast assemblage of galaxies to which our Galaxy, the Milky Way, belongs and the coma cluster, a galaxy cluster that lies a few hundred million light years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices.

The newly discovered black hole is in a galaxy, NGC 1600, in the opposite part of the sky from the Coma Cluster in a relative desert, said the leader of the discovery team, Chung - Pei Ma, a UC Berkeley professor of astronomy and head of the MASSIVE Survey, a study of the most massive galaxies and black holes in the local universe with the goal of understanding how they form and grow supermassive.

In 1999 Rien van de Weygaert of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and Yehuda Hoffman of Hebrew University in Jerusalem argued that the Local Volume is caught in a cosmic tug - of - war between surrounding galaxy clusters.

Every galaxy of sufficient mass in the Local Group has an associated group of globular clusters, and almost every large galaxy surveyed has been found to possess a system of globular clusters.

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.

This cluster has a diameter of approximately 15 million light years which is not much larger than our Local Group but it contains fifty times the number of galaxies.

Of all the globular clusters in the Local Group of galaxies, only Mayall II in the Andromeda Galaxy is brighter and more massive.

This cluster completely dominates our tiny corner of the Universe, and even our Local Group of galaxies is being gravitationally pulled by this cluster.

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.

Astronomers have discovered that our Local Group is on the outskirts of a giant cluster of several thousand galaxies — which astronomers call the Virgo Ccluster of several thousand galaxies — which astronomers call the Virgo ClusterCluster.