Sentences with phrase «nearby bright galaxies»

She told Disney she'd spotted standalone galaxy - like objects right where the Parkes survey had found gas clouds identified as merely extended parts of nearby bright galaxies.

Not exact matches

Unlike most supernovae surveys, which look for bright bursts of light, Kochanek would monitor about 30 nearby galaxies for curious patches of darkness where a star had suddenly disappeared.

They are the locations of bright stars and other nearby objects that get in the way of the observations of more distant galaxies and are hence masked out in these maps as no weak - lensing signal can be measured in these areas.

These streaks arch down towards NGC 2936's nearby companion, the elliptical galaxy NGC 2937, visible here as a bright white oval.

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

First, a team led by astronomer Jon Miller of the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, used the European Space Agency's XMM - Newton satellite to study two bright x-ray sources in the nearby galaxy NGC 1313.

But light from nearby bright stars can drown out dimmer galaxies like the 72 new ones, none of which contain stars Hubble can see.

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope's Hyper Suprime - Cam observed the nearby large spiral galaxy M81, together with its two brightest neighbors.

Astronomers using the Subaru Telescope's Hyper Suprime - Cam prime - focus camera recently observed the nearby large spiral galaxy M81, together with its two brightest neighbors, M82 and NGC3077.

Therefore, evolutionist astronomers believe that star formation rates in our galaxy and nearby galaxies are too slow to be observed, but that amazingly high star formation rates occur in «starburst galaxies» — the brightest galaxies with the greatest redshifts.

The famous Sombrero galaxy (M104) is a nearby bright spiral galaxy.

To astronomers in other nearby galaxies it would be a visible as a bright pink spot on the Sagittarius Arm.

«We saw a bright blue source of light in a nearby galaxy — the first time the glowing debris from a neutron star merger had ever been observed,» recalled Josh Simon, another of the Carnegie team's leaders on this discovery.

With clouds shrouding much of the sky, professor Steve Fossey decided to point the University's 14 - inch telescope at nearby galaxy Messier 82 (M82) and saw a very bright object that wasn't supposed to be there.

This plot shows over one and a half million of the brightest stars and galaxies in the nearby universe detected by the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) in infrared light.

NGC 5128 is the fifth brightest galaxy in the sky and one of the strangest looking galaxies in the nearby universe.