Sentences with phrase «nearby giant galaxy»
This rare opportunity to observe a dwarf galaxy as its gas is removed by the effects of a nearby giant galaxy will allow scientists to learn more about how this process happens.
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The nearby giant galaxy M87 has a monster black hole at its center (more than 6 billion suns» worth) offering astronomers a similar «eclipse effect,» notes Doeleman.
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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.
A Giant Galactic Ghost Intrigued by faint blurs on old photographic plates of the Virgo galaxy cluster, a nearby region teeming with galaxies, Oregon's Bothun and colleagues wondered if the apparitions might be smallish galaxies with «low surface brightness» — astronomer - speak for emitting less light per unit area than typical galaxies.
Suspecting that Andromeda, a nearby giant spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way, might sport a similar stream, researchers led by Rodrigo Ibata of the Strasbourg Observatory in France used the Isaac Newton Telescope at La Palma, Canary Islands, to find out.
When the giant elliptical gets large enough, it can gobble up nearby galaxies whole.
Some ellipticals are present in the central part of the cluster including a giant elliptical at the center (M87) that has become so large by gobbling up nearby galaxies that were attracted by its enormous gravity.
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.
In order to hack into, what else, a giant battleship, the two young recruits are first dispatched to a nearby planet with a lavish casino run by rich arms dealers — who, it turns out, profit from supplying weapons to both sides of the galaxy's seemingly eternal good - versus - evil conflict.