Sentences with phrase «nearby clusters of»

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We have also more images of the region of M8 and M20, which sometimes also include the nearby open star cluster M21.

The protocluster is likely to evolve, over 12 billion years, into a system much like the nearby Coma cluster of galaxies, shown in the image below.

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.

These structures can be traced over more than 80 million light - years in the COSMOS survey - approximately five times the extent of the nearby Virgo galaxy cluster.

Astronomers reported today that recent ultraviolet observations with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope suggest that what were thought to be randomly distributed, nearby primordial clouds of hydrogen may actually be associated with galaxies or clusters of galaxies.

If your day is going well — why not take a drive through nearby Laragh where you'll find clusters of traditional pubs.

The menu of options presented to the public includes out - of - boundary «set - asides» for low - income students and a version of «controlled choice» that would replace neighborhood school assignments with a lottery system to place children in one of a cluster of nearby schools.

Alternatively, if you are not aware of a local cluster but would be interested in finding out if there is one nearby then please get in touch by emailing [email protected] or calling 01509 226688.

True to their marketing slogan, only Panja Resort offers unobstructed views of the rolling hills, mountains, forests and the cluster of islands in nearby Honda Bay all in one picturesque panorama.

Known as Laem Son after the cluster of pine - like son trees that tower nearby, the beach at park headquarters is aesthetically similar to Sunrise Beach on Lipe, but with more tidal garbage and far fewer people.

While the lodge is surrounded by tropical flora, a cluster of white sand beaches, wildlife preserve and waterfalls are nearby.

Surin Beach features the classy StereoLab while nearby Cherng Talay has a cluster of bars in Tinlay Place near to the Laguna entrance but other than that this area is quiet.

These waters are relatively sheltered, allowing you to concentrate on the rugged mountains of mainland BC in the distance and the outlandishly colorful sea anemones clustered on nearby rocks.

Each powerup recharges after use, so knowing when to use them gives you a tactical edge - a well - timed EMP blast can send clusters of cop cars careering off the road and crashing into nearby obstacles.