Sentences with phrase «many nearby clusters»

While astronomers have identified many nearby clusters, they need to go further back in time to understand how these structures are formed.

But Gould and Villumsen point out that there is more detailed information about nearby clusters.

The greater W is, the more mass these nearby clusters have and the more their gravity should distort, or «lens», the light from galaxies behind them.

Last month, at a meeting at the University of Maryland, Ozernoy presented calculations of how Sagittarius A * pulls in material from a nearby cluster of hot blue stars.

Gillian Wilson, professor of physics and astronomy at UC Riverside, added, «Fascinatingly, however, the study found that the percentage of galaxies which had stopped forming stars in those young, distant clusters, was much lower than the percentage found in much older, nearby clusters.

While fireworks only last a short time here on Earth, a bundle of cosmic sparklers in a nearby cluster of stars will be going off for a very long time.

The team also mapped out all the positions of the brightest nearby cluster stars and was able to detect very small motions as the stars slowly revolved around each other.

Not exact matches

However, strategically consolidating Wadsworth into a campus or facility that is proximate to other existing life sciences assets and nearby space suitable for future partnership investments would let Wadsworth best serve its role as a catalyst for cluster growth.

A Giant Galactic Ghost Intrigued by faint blurs on old photographic plates of the Virgo galaxy cluster, a nearby region teeming with galaxies, Oregon's Bothun and colleagues wondered if the apparitions might be smallish galaxies with «low surface brightness» — astronomer - speak for emitting less light per unit area than typical galaxies.

Gas at the centre of galaxy clusters should be cooling as it loses energy; this would allow nearby material to compress the gas and create ideal conditions for making stars.

Globular clusters contain far lower concentrations of the planet - forming heavy elements — such as carbon, oxygen, and iron — than do our sun and nearby stars, leading some to suspect that it might be difficult for planets to form there.

In fact, the distribution pattern they found showed two distinct clusters of artifacts, one near some stone slabs, which they interpret as the remnants of a burial platform, and another in the nearby depression where the hikers found the Iceman's body.

The globular clusters M15 (left) in our Milky Way and G1 in the nearby Andromeda galaxy both harbor medium - size black holes at their cores.

Now, Hubble has done just that for two globular clusters: M15, in our Milky Way, and G1, in the nearby Andromeda galaxy.

By studying this particular cluster — and others nearby — astronomers can explore the properties of the spiral disc of our galaxy, the Milky Way.

That's also the distance to most stars in the nearby Big Dipper, which makes it likely that they all belong to the same association, or loose star cluster.

This image from the Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG / ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at La Silla, shows the cluster and the gas clouds surrounding it, which glow in orange and red hues due to the radiation coming from nearby hot stars.

Exoplanets have also been found in the past two years in the clusters NGC 6811 and Messier 44, and even more recently one has also been detected in the bright and nearby Hyades cluster.

He notes that the Milky Way's north side points toward the Virgo cluster, an enormous nearby gathering of galaxies.

That could now change thanks to a plan to combine the unused potential of groups of nearby phones, creating clusters capable of everything from weather modelling to Wi - Fi cracking.

Nearby was a cluster of fringed black dots with spears sticking out of them.

THE distance to the nearby Virgo cluster of galaxies is a crucial measurement.

The astronomers believe that AzTEC - 3 and the other nearby galaxies appear to be part of the same system, but are not yet gravitationally bound into a clearly defined cluster.

If clouds of hydrogen also cluster around quasars — which convert all nearby neutral hydrogen to invisible ionized gas — then quasars must have ionized more hydrogen than astronomers had assumed, Savaglio says.

If they are connected gravitationally, then they will eventually form the core of a massive cluster of galaxies like the nearby Virgo Cluster, which boasts 2000 mcluster of galaxies like the nearby Virgo Cluster, which boasts 2000 mCluster, which boasts 2000 members.

Lauer and his colleagues began their survey of galaxy clusters in order to find the «great attractor», a concentrated mass supposedly responsible for the net motion of nearby galaxies.

Remarkably, the distribution of star - forming galaxies around a cluster of galaxies in the more distant universe (5 billion years ago) corresponds much more closely with the weak lensing map than a slice of the more nearby universe (3 billion years ago).

The lens could lie within or nearby the galaxy, and could be a collection of thousands of stars like a globular cluster.

The brightest object in a nearby star cluster, thought for decades to be a single star, is actually two massive stars in the process of merging.

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.

Astronomers first noticed some years ago that nearby galaxy clusters are populated with dim reddish elliptical galaxies.

Gravitational lenses occur when very massive objects — such as clusters of galaxies — warp spacetime around them, causing light (and anything else) traveling nearby to take a curved path.

They seemed to cluster around Olympus Mons and the Tharsis Montes, a group of three large volcanoes nearby.

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.

Now Andrew Gould and Jens Villumsen of Ohio State University in Columbus argue that the gravity of nearby galaxy clusters should distort the light from distant galaxies in a way that depends on W.

The cluster may have originally circled the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud, whose weaker gravity didn't have the same effect.

Meanwhile, we also will have sent clusters of spacecraft to 15 or so nearby stars.

Over billions of years, they build up structure in the universe — merging with adjacent clusters, like growing cities absorb nearby towns.

First, the cluster is nearby, so its galaxies are bright and many of them have measured velocities.

A user flying through GameSpace will encounter, for example, a large cluster of racing games, and can then investigate individual games or look nearby to find related kinds of games.

The Substellar Objects in Nearby Young Clusters (SONYC) survey included the star cluster NGC 1333, 1000 light years away in the constellation of Perseus.

Seeing these seven clusters fairly nearby suggests our theories of how galaxies form via collisions are right.

By comparing this new diagram to the Hertzsprung - Russell diagram for the nearby stars, you will see that the ratio of the observed apparent brightness to the absolute brightness is the same for every kind of star - and this ratio gives you then the distance to the cluster.

In reality, NGC 1559 is physically nowhere near the LMC in space — in fact, it truly is a loner, lacking the company of any nearby galaxies or membership of any galaxy cluster.

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.

Figure 1 shows a nearby galaxy surrounded by globular clusters.

However, if the light from many distant galaxies passes through the stretched spacetime of a nearby galaxy cluster, then the mass of the galaxy cluster can be derived from a careful analysis of the ensemble of warped shapes and their orientations.

A nearby companion galaxy, NGC 5195, off the edge of this image, gravitational pull is triggering star formation in the main galaxy, as seen in brilliant detail by numerous, luminous clusters of young and energetic stars.

His scientific research has focused on dwarf spheroidal galaxies, stellar populations in the Milky Way galaxy and nearby galaxies, globular clusters, chemical evolution of galaxies, and dark matter.

Because it is above the atmosphere, the Hubble Space Telescope can detect these small dead stars in nearby old star clusters called globular clusters.