Sentences with phrase «main disk»

▪ The detection of stars extending from the Andromeda galaxy's main disk indicates that the galaxy is 220,000 light - years across, three times bigger than previously thought.

``... and it (sic) great to drizzle on salad or main disk proteins.»

In addition, these stars are not orbiting the galactic center inside the Milky Way's spiral arms like the Sun, but they originate from the spherical Galactic halo that surrounds the Milky Way's main disk, while briefly intersecting it in their long, elliptical orbits around the center.

Scientists now believe that absorbing a small galaxy is what kicked some of the Milky Way's stars out above the main disk, into a region scientists call its halo.

A planet in an inclined orbit gravitationally attracts small bodies of rock and / or ice, called planetesimals, from the main disk, and moves them into an orbit aligned with that of the planet.