Sentences with phrase «nearby galaxy groups»
Nearly all of the nearby galaxies lie near this plane (the supergalactic coordinate system was originally invented because many nearby galaxy groups lie close to this plane.)
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/
«Ghostly remnants of galaxy interactions uncovered in a nearby galaxy group.»
Not exact matches
Dubbed Dragonfly 44, this nearby group of stars (yellowish smudge at center of right image) was discovered just last year and apparently has less than 1 % the number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy.
For instance, in the crowded heart of a galaxy, black holes may have more opportunities to pair up with nearby stars — and then slurp material from them, generating x rays in the process — than they do in sparser regions of the star group.
The estimates of the number of dwarf irregulars and dwarf ellipticals are based on the proportions of these types of galaxies in nearby groups.
NGC 4123 (centre) is a barred spiral galaxy nearby in the NGC 4179 group.
Only the left side of this group around the nearby IC 342 galaxy is easily visible - most of the galaxies around Maffei I and II were not discovered until the 1990's.
The Maffei group is a famous nearby group of galaxies even though most of the galaxies in the group have only been discovered in the past twenty years.
An international group of scientists led by German Hans - Walter Rix from the Max - Planck - Institut fur Astronomie in Heidelberg is studying 24 nearby disk galaxies, similar to our own Milky Way, using the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.