Sentences with phrase «nearby galaxy»

Gillen sums it up helpfully: «In this space - strategy exploration game, the sequel to Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, you're placed as commander of an interplanetary vessel with a ten to thirty year mission to explore the nearby galaxy.

The spiral arms of the nearby galaxy Messier 81 are highlighted in this NASA Spitzer Space Telescope image.

On that «super» day, the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASASSN) reported a supernova in the same nearby galaxy Kepler was monitoring.

Another result from the study is that the jet structure in NGC 1275 significantly differs from the jet in the very nearby galaxy Messier 87, which is the only other jet whose structure has been imaged equally close to the black hole.

Each of the 15 galaxies the Sheffield team studied was in the process of colliding with another, nearby galaxy, they explained in a statement.

Astronomers looked at it and realized she had spotted something they had never seen before: a gas cloud as big as our solar system, illuminated by energy from a nearby galaxy's black hole [source: Plait].

They made their best measurement to date in a recent study of a supernova first seen 27 years ago in a nearby galaxy.

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.

For the development and verification of a new method, it would be better to select a nearby galaxy which can be spatially resolved and examined in detail compared to a distant galaxy whose properties are largely unknown.

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.

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.

But researchers say they have now confirmed such an object in the nearby galaxy M82 — a black hole about as massive as 400 suns.

«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.

A black hole in the nearby galaxy M82 weighs in at 428 solar masses, give or take a hundred suns or so, they report today (Aug. 17) in the journal Nature.

This estimate takes into account the fact that the ultraviolet irradiance of the Sun was considerably larger in the distant past, as confirmed by astronomical measurements of younger Sun - like stars in the nearby galaxy.

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.

Figure 1 shows a nearby galaxy surrounded by globular clusters.

A newfound star in a nearby galaxy appears to have cheated death by blowing up at least twice as a supernova.

Earlier this year, U.S. and Japanese astronomers published a paper on their discovery of one star in a nearby galaxy that brightened and dimmed precisely as if a primordial black hole was passing in front of it.

At his proposed distance, the 1181 explosion was roughly a fifth as luminous as the 1987 supernova in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy, that also emitted less light than the norm.

«Ghostly remnants of galaxy interactions uncovered in a nearby galaxy group.»

A pair of gas clouds in a nearby galaxy appears to be the tortured remains of two ancient gamma - ray bursts.

Part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby galaxy, has significantly more huge stars than we would expect to see, which could mean there are more supernovae and black holes all over.

According to new observations from NASAs Hubble Space Telescope of a star - forming region in a nearby galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud, intense radiation and powerful winds from massive, ultrabright baby stars have sculpted their environment, carving a large cavity in their natal nebula, N83B.

Earlier this year, astronomers in London detected a spectacular, once - in - a-century supernova (dubbed SN2014J) in a relatively nearby galaxy known as Messier 82 (M82), or the Cigar Galaxy, 12 million light - years away.

Tonry's method exploits the fact that a nearby galaxy looks coarse and grainy, whereas a distant galaxy looks smooth.

Using the combined power of nine radio telescopes arrayed across the Southern Hemisphere, the images reveal features just 15 light - days across in the heart of the nearby galaxy Centaurus A, 12 million light - years away.

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.

In this illustration, a midsize black hole in a nearby galaxy consumes gas from a relatively cool disk.

What they did find is a nearby galaxy that's producing stars at a rapid pace — the equivalent of about 350 suns per year, a hundred times faster than typical galaxies.

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.

The team figured out what a telescope would see when a star hit the hard surface of a supermassive object at the center of a nearby galaxy: The star's gas would envelope the object, shining for months, perhaps even years.

A speeding star may have been flung away by a black hole lurking unnoticed in a nearby galaxy, new research suggests.

The Event Horizon Telescope will look at black holes in the nucleus of our galaxy and a nearby galaxy, M87.

Astronomers first noticed some years ago that nearby galaxy clusters are populated with dim reddish elliptical galaxies.

«The nearby galaxy can't be too close, or too far away, and like the Goldilocks principle, too hot or too cold,» said study coauthor John Wise, an associate astrophysics professor at Georgia Tech.

There are so many distant galaxies that every nearby galaxy is seen against a backdrop of thousands of others, and the image of each background galaxy is distorted just a little bit.

In computer simulations, the researchers show that a black hole can rapidly grow at the center of its host galaxy if a nearby galaxy emits enough radiation to switch off its capacity to form stars.

The lens could lie within or nearby the galaxy, and could be a collection of thousands of stars like a globular cluster.

A deep CCD exposure may contain hundreds of distant galaxies but only one nearby galaxy.

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.

In the early 2000s, when looking for other objects in a nearby galaxy, he and his colleagues captured an image filled with the echoing light of three known supernovas.

A Yale University analysis of one such event in a nearby galaxy provides an unprecedented look at the process.

If two neutron stars were to merge in a nearby galaxy, the resulting wave would squish and stretch the space - time near Earth by about a millionth of the diameter of an atom as it passed through us.

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.

«Massive fails» like this one in a nearby galaxy could explain why astronomers rarely see supernovae from the most massive stars, said Christopher Kochanek, professor of astronomy at The Ohio State University and the Ohio Eminent Scholar in Observational Cosmology.

«Caught in the act: Astronomers find a rare supernova «impostor» in a nearby galaxy.»

M51 is interacting with a nearby galaxy (off screen here) and that gravitational barn dance may be what's smoothing out the dust here.

Right now, the Milky Way galaxy is locked in a gravitational dance with a nearby galaxy called Andromeda.

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.