Sentences with phrase «magnified by a galaxy»

Its brightness and size are magnified by a galaxy cluster that lies in front of it.

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MAGNIFYING THE COSMOS The light from a distant galaxy (lower right) is warped by the gravity of a closer, massive galaxy (bright blur in center).

Observations with ground - based telescopes then suggested that the galaxies» light had been bent and magnified by the gravity of intervening galaxies on its way...

Observations with ground - based telescopes then suggested that the galaxies» light had been bent and magnified by the gravity of intervening galaxies on its way to Earth (Science, vol 330, p 800).

Getting a high - resolution spectrum was possible thanks to a fortunate trick of nature: The light of the distant object is magnified 50 times by the gravity of a galaxy cluster halfway between the Earth and cB58.

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.

He estimates that a few hundred of these magnified galaxies could turn up by March 2011, when Herschel will complete a deep - space map of 1.5 per cent of the sky.

And by definition, an Einstein ring magnifies a faraway background galaxy, so it also helps us study the ancient universe.

That dip was caused by blobs of hot plasma emitted by the galaxy's black hole, which were magnified by a cluster of stars acting as a cosmic lens between Earth and the galaxy, researchers suggest.

If a distant galaxy were lined up right behind one more close by, this warping would bend and magnify the faraway galaxy's image, a phenomenon now called gravitational lensing.

The start of a jet in the distant galaxy J1415 +1320 was magnified by a massive object in the foreground, closer to Earth.

[4] To find out where the dark matter was located in the cluster the researchers studied the light from galaxies behind the cluster whose light had been magnified and distorted by the mass in the cluster.

Astronomers detected the galaxy by using a natural magnifying glass.

«As we were searching for distant galaxies magnified by Abell 2218, we detected a pair of strikingly similar images whose arrangement and color indicate a very distant object,» explains lead author Jean - Paul Kneib of the California Institute of Technology.

The way a massive object — in this case a galaxy between the quasar and Earth — bends light, as described by Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, can allow it to function as a sort of «cosmic magnifying glass,» as Impellizzeri put it.

The galaxies discovered in this study (circled) are magnified by factors of 3 - 100 and are fainter than any galaxies seen at this distance before.

The cluster Abell 1689 magnified the infrared light of an infant galaxy from 12.8 billion years in the past enough to just barely be detected by the infrared camera on the Hubble Space Telescope and by the Spitzer Space Telescope (see the STScI press release for more on that).

Hubble's latest discovery of 250 faint galaxies — formed 600 million to 900 million years after the Big Bang — in the early universe using three galaxy clusters to magnify the light given off by these distant objects.

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.

Astronomers can see this individual star because its light has been highly magnified by an intervening galaxy cluster through a process called gravitational lensing, said Liliya Williams, University professor in the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics.

The distant galaxies in these images are most typically magnified by factors of between 2 and 10.

The ultra-deep images of galaxy clusters are revealing the faintest galaxies ever studied, magnified by gravitational lensing.

It can be difficult to interpret the distortions that occur as light from distant galaxies becomes magnified and bent by the vast mass of the Frontier Fields» galactic clusters.

The four images of the same supernova result from the way light from distant objects is not just magnified but bent by the immense mass of the galaxy cluster.

Tucker Jones is discussing the lensing effect can cause galaxies to be magnified in apparent size and brightness by factors of more than 10.

Based on modeling of the foreground galaxy and observations made by the Atacama Large Millimeter / submillimeter Array in Chile, the researchers calculated that the mysterious light source is only lightly magnified, and therefore big.