Sentences with phrase «many tiny galaxies»

Hordes of relatively tiny galaxies, weighing as little as 1 million suns, are responsible for most of this tweak to the cosmic census.

But time will tell, because Randall's idea is testable: Future observations of our galaxy, as well as of tiny galaxies surrounding the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, could find this type of dark matter and illuminate the solar system's route through it.

First proposed 6 years ago, this notion maintains that tiny galaxies, not massive ones, should arise last because it takes gravity so long to assemble the sparse bits of matter in voids.

While a typical galaxy contains billions of stars, a number of tiny galaxies have been found in recent years that do not fit the classic picture and instead resemble the groups of stars known as star clusters.

Such views suggest that tiny galaxies in the early universe played a crucial role in cosmic reionization — when ultraviolet radiation stripped electrons from hydrogen atoms in the cosmos.

Early in its history the Milky Way gobbled up many tiny galaxies.

Because dwarf galaxies contain so few stars, this suggests that whatever is responsible for FRB 121102 has a better chance of forming in tiny galaxies than large, spiral ones.

«Supermassive black holes found in two tiny galaxies: Black holes may lurk in most ultra-compact dwarf remnants of shredded galaxies.»

That «missing satellite» problem has led some researchers to question the theories that predict the abundance of tiny galaxies.

An international team of astronomers, led by Hakim Atek of the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, has discovered over 250 tiny galaxies that existed only 600 - 900 million years after the Big Bang [1]-- one of the largest samples of dwarf galaxies yet to be discovered at these epochs.

New observations show that tiny galaxies in the early universe could have triggered the epoch of reionization — a period when harsh radiation tore apart hydrogen atoms — which astronomers consider key to understanding how stars and galaxies arose from the universe's early dark void.

The new photo was exposed for 50 hours to gather enough light, and reveals extremely faint, tiny galaxies that may be more than 12 billion light - years away.

Astronomers aren't sure why, but they posit that the tiny galaxy ran out of the gases that fuel star birth early on.

This article appeared in print under the headline «Was tiniest galaxy bullied by a malevolent Milky Way?»

If Segue 2 was born small, maybe other tiny galaxies were born that way too, and they are so faint we've had trouble spotting them.

Simulations suggest that the Milky Way should have thousands of tiny galaxies buzzing around it, but only 27 have been observed.

Although this may seem low, Zitrin said that given its small size and low mass, the tiny galaxy is in fact rapidly evolving and efficiently forming stars.

Thuan said the data indicates that the tiny galaxy is rapidly producing new stars at a quarter of the rate of the Milky Way — yet its mass in stars is 30,000 times smaller.

The researchers focused on tiny galaxies known as «green pea» galaxies due to their compact size.

And if, as current models suggest, the universe should be teeming with very small halos of it, then where are all the tiny galaxies?

«This galaxy is a rare find — a tiny galaxy that is still building up the mass of its black hole.

Astronomer based at the Special Astrophysical Observatory in Karachai - Cherkessia, Russia, spotted the tiny galaxy using the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys in August.

My opinion is that the cleanest sites are the teeniest, tiniest galaxies we know about — dwarf galaxies.

Astronomers have found a relatively tiny galaxy whose black - hole - powered central engine is pouring out energy at a rate equal to that of much larger galaxies, and they're wondering how it manages to do so.

Their low metallicity allows these tiny galaxies to produce more massive stars, and, probably because massive stars have stronger magnetic fields, their explosive deaths can leave behind highly magnetized neutron stars, or magnetars.

The Umbrella Galaxy takes its name from a mysterious feature seen on the left here, that is now found to be debris from a tiny galaxy, only a 50th its size, shredded apart by gravity.

While the tiny galaxy is only 6 percent the size of the Milky Way, it contains about twice as many stars.

The central region has been given the name «Spiderweb» though it was previously known as MRC 1138 - 262, because it seems to consist of tiny galaxies trapped by gravity, rather like flies in a spider's web.

Those familiar with my Things I'm Loving posts and holiday gift guides have surely caught on to my love of the beautiful creations from Sara of Tiny Galaxies.

Additionally, a couple of belts for completing some of the outfits, a small baggie with my most frequently worn earrings (most from Erin McDermott, Tiny Galaxies and Rana Salame), and my curling wand.

In Little Inferno you burn flaming logs, screaming robots, credit cards, batteries, exploding fish, unstable nuclear devices and tiny galaxies.

Showers came, and the web became A tiny galaxy strung with crystal spheres, Filaments of light in suspended orbit Around the lurking shadow at its hub.

Not exact matches

«Strewn across this tiny piece of the sky are perhaps 1500 or more galaxies of all shapes, sizes, and colors!

The common «creation story» emerging from the fields of astrophysics, biology, and scientific cosmology makes small any myth of creation from the various religious traditions: some ten billion or so years ago the universe began from a big bang exploding the «matter,» which was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense, outward to create the untold number of galaxies of which our tiny planet is but one blip on the screen.

We are tiny beings on a sphere, spinning through an infinite galaxy.

We're an upstart species on tiny planet, in a boring solar system, in an average galaxy among millions of galaxies.

It says that we're only a tiny blip in the Universe — an inconsequential mote in the outer spiral arm of a conventional spiral galaxy trillions of light years wide.

God: Well, in one of those of galaxies, there's one tiny little star that has a few planets circling around it.

There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, each with planets, that large of a number even if a tiny fraction had an atmosphere and even if a fraction of them had water (as we know it is required, but life may not require it on other planets) it would be amazing if there wasn't a carbon based lifeform somewhere else in our galaxy, let alone in the universe with billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and trillions of planets.

If your sky fairy really needs pink monkeys worshiping him on a tiny spec of rock spinning through one of the billions of galaxies he really is quite petty and I wouldn't follow him even if I was sure he was real.

but in reality we are a very tiny planet in a sea of billions of galaxies which each galaxy has billions of stars and planets.

As it has countless times in the past and present, (the Holocaust, the Bubonic Plague, the World Wars, countless natural disasters, (floods, storms, earthquakes, etc), the Sky Myth was on vacation when, on a tiny speck of a planet, on a boring arm of the galaxy, in an average galaxy cluster among billions, a bad thing happened.

Unfiltered and bubbling, looking down into the glass is like looking into a tiny, milky galaxy.

At the time, Schmidt thought he had a pretty good handle on the evolution of the cosmos: It began in a tiny fireball of energy — the Big Bang — and had expanded outward ever since, carrying galaxies and supernovae along for the ride.

Now, despite the depth of the Hubble observations, MUSE has — among many other results — revealed 72 galaxies never seen before in this very tiny area of the sky.

South Africa's new MeerKAT radio telescope has discovered more than 1300 galaxies in a tiny patch of sky where we'd only spotted 70 before.

The mass of ejected lithium in Nova Centauri 2013 is estimated to be tiny (less than a billionth of the mass of the Sun), but, as there have been many billions of novae in the history of the Milky Way, this is enough to explain the observed and unexpectedly large amounts of lithium in our galaxy.

The Hubble Space Telescope's «Ultra Deep Field» reveals about 10,000 objects in a tiny patch of sky, including some of the most distant galaxies ever seen.

Among the galaxies are hundreds of tiny, ill - formed blotches of stars that should help astronomers devise a coherent picture of how galaxies assembled after the big bang, says project leader Steven Beckwith, director of the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore, Maryland.

The newcomer, called Kks3, is a tiny, isolated dwarf galaxy that sits almost 7 million light - years away in the constellation Hydrus.