Not exact matches
Earlier studies had
suggested that the gravity of
nearby stars would have ripped apart these primordial clumps, but the new simulations show that this would only happen in the crowded core of
galaxies, leaving the clumps in the galactic suburbs intact (arxiv.org/abs/1006.3392).
Astronomers studying a
nearby dwarf
galaxy have detected large organic molecules,
suggesting that the basic chemical building blocks of life can form in places much more primitive than our own
galaxy.
Although catastrophe might be looming, data from
nearby galaxies and supernovae
suggest the cosmos needs to age quite a bit before that can happen
That
suggested that the gravity of the
nearby galaxies had bent and magnified the light from the more distant, dusty
galaxies.
A new computer re-enactment of billions of years of galactic evolution
suggests that the Milky Way owes much of its current shape to interactions with a
nearby dwarf
galaxy.
A speeding star may have been flung away by a black hole lurking unnoticed in a
nearby galaxy, new research
suggests.
Seeing these seven clusters fairly
nearby suggests our theories of how
galaxies form via collisions are right.
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.