Sentences with phrase «nearby galaxies appear»
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.
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A pair of gas clouds in a nearby galaxy appears to be the tortured remains of two ancient gamma - ray bursts.
A newfound star in a nearby galaxy appears to have cheated death by blowing up at least twice as a supernova.
Not exact matches
There appear to be more far - off galaxies only because astronomers have been missing most of the nearby ones — the ones that contain so few stars that they are intrinsically dim.
In the 1970s, astronomers Vera Rubin and Kent Ford used the same basic arguments to show, in much more convincing detail, that spiral galaxies appear to keep their shapes because of the gravitational glue from nearby dark matter.
A highly detailed survey of the nearby Andromeda Galaxy, which as a nearby spiral galaxy is something of an observational proxy for our own Milky Way, shows the remnants of smaller galaxies that our neighbor appears to have cannibalized.
From ground - based telescopes, the glowing gaseous debris surrounding dying, sun - like stars in a nearby galaxy, called the Large Magellanic Cloud, appear as small, shapeless dots of light.