Sentences with phrase «nearby galaxies called»
The scientists from the USA, Australia, and Europe used the powerful DEIMOS spectrograph installed on the world's largest optical telescope at Keck Observatory to conduct a major survey of nearby galaxies called SLUGGS, which mapped out the speeds of their stars.
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Right now, the Milky Way galaxy is locked in a gravitational dance with a nearby galaxy called Andromeda.
Since it was first discovered in 1992, the curious shape of the Honeycomb Nebula, which lurks in a nearby galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud, has been a puzzle.
Further observations showed that the voorwerp was a glowing cloud of gas that stretched some 100,000 light - years from the core of a massive nearby galaxy called IC 2497.
Not exact matches
The supernova, known as SN1987A, was first seen by observers in the Southern Hemisphere in 1987 when a giant star suddenly exploded at the edge of a nearby dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud.
The payload is the Australian Space Telescope called Endeavour which was built to obtain images of violent explosive events in nearby galaxies.
Kaaret and his team focused on a galaxy called Tol 1247 - 232, located some 600 million light years from Earth, one of only three nearby galaxies from which ultraviolet light has been found to escape.
The solar system is part of a giant, spinning, spiral - shaped galaxy called the Milky Way, and the universe contains billions of galaxies, each with millions of stars, and many with planets nearby.
The telescope zeroed in on two supermassive black holes: a beast as massive as four million suns called Sagittarius A *, which lies at the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, and a black hole about 1,500 times heavier at the core of the nearby galaxy M87.
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.