Sentences with phrase «of ancient galaxies»

The astronomers had expected to find a number of ancient galaxies known as ellipticals, but instead discovered that, out of the 800,000 sample galaxies included in the study, 53 of the brightest examples were in fact spiral - shaped.

The team found only two candidates for baby black holes in thousands of ancient galaxies (arxiv.org/abs/1603.08522).

Not exact matches

Many of the 2012 predictions can be traced back to the mysterious end of the ancient Mayan calendar, which measured time in vast cycles, based on Earth's position within our galaxy and our galaxy's movement through the cosmos.

We are made of stardust, the scientists say — the iron in our blood, the calcium in our bones, and the chlorine in our skin forged in the furnaces of ancient stars whose explosions scattered the elements across the galaxy.

Just as your eyes can see visible light but not radio waves or x-rays, Webb's vision is tuned for the infrared — a portion of the spectrum ideal for studying ancient stars and galaxies, but where oxygen's barcode - like absorption lines are rather slight and sparse.

Theoretical models of galaxy formation produce this arrangement less than 0.5 % of the time, and the researchers suggest that these planes of satellites might instead be the product of ancient collisions between massive galaxies.

But in January, astronomers used optical and infrared telescopes to look back nearly to the beginning of the universe, just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, where they saw newborn ellipticals — ancient galaxies so dusty they're nearly invisible.

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has picked up the faint, ghostly glow of stars ejected from ancient galaxies that were gravitationally ripped apart several billion years ago.

Ellis, his PhD student Dan Stark and their colleagues trained one of the world's biggest telescopes, the Keck 2 atop Hawaii's Mauna Kea, to scan light grazing massive clusters of closer galaxies [see image above], which focused the light coming from more ancient galaxies behind them and magnified it 20 times in a process called gravitational lensing.

To measure the size of these ancient giant waves to such sharp precision, BOSS had to make an unprecedented and ambitious galaxy map, many times larger than previous surveys.

That machine, when constructed, creates an artificial wormhole that allows Jodie Foster's character to travel to the center of our galaxy and talk to advanced aliens — who tell her that they didn't build the wormhole tunnels; an ancient race did.

Later this year, astronomers will begin a new sky survey to look for signs of the stuff among exploding stars and ancient galaxy clusters.

Astronomers are now using the largest existing telescopes on the ground and in space to better assess the composition, size and shape of the newly discovered ancient galaxies.

The remote object is part of a discovery of 22 young galaxies at ancient times located nearly at the observable horizon of the universe.

Just as London and Paris are built on more ancient Roman or even older remains, our Milky Way galaxy also has multiple generations of stars that span the time from its formation to the present.

So far, however, the most remote, ancient galaxies they can see have all seemed tiny — much smaller than our own mature galaxy of hundreds of billions of stars.

But in my opinion, the fairest of them all is the Cosmic Horseshoe found in the Sloan survey in 2007: light from an ancient blue galaxy draped 300 degrees around a red galaxy 10 times heavier than the Milky Way.

They found four smudges of light — possibly galaxies — in the area, as well as a blob - shaped galaxy full of ancient stars on the region's periphery.

Aging red giant stars coexist with their more plentiful younger cousins, the smaller, white, Sun - like stars, in this crowded region of our galaxy's ancient central hub, or bulge.

Among the stunning shots taken this week were those of the Lagoon Nebula, about 3600 light years away from Earth; the 47 Tucanae cluster of several million ancient stars about 15,000 light years from Earth; and the face - on barred spiral galaxy NGC 6744 in the star - rich southern constellation of Pavo, about 30 million light years away.

Astronomers now believe that ancient supernova explosions probably blasted these bubbles in the fabric of the galaxy.

But there will also undoubtedly be shocks, like the sighting of ancient quasars and the discovery of cannibal galaxies — and that is what really motivates the people who run the hardest - working telescope in the world.

Most of the galaxy's stars, including the sun, reside in a thin, pancake - shaped disk, but ancient stars populate a halo surrounding the disk.

This concentrically expanding system, as ancient as it is enormous, provides a wonderful example of the intricate, interrelated structures that are sculpted in galaxies by the lives and deaths of stars.

Two blobs spotted in the distant, ancient universe may be the seeds of the supermassive black holes that now dominate the core of every galaxy.

A few years ago, Frebel realized that some of the dwarf galaxies that orbit the Milky Way might be especially rich sources of ancient stars.

What is more, the most ancient galaxies appeared to have the highest concentrations of molecular gas.

Star formation is also evident in the thin thread that connects the two galaxies: a bridge of stars created by the ancient crash, stretching over the 24,000 light - years that currently separate the fated pair.

These ancient black holes proved to be proportionately much heavier than those in the present - day universe — about 3 percent of the galaxy's mass.

For this reason, the galaxy - hole pairings seen by Carilli's team might not be representative of the ancient universe, in which case the question of which came first remains unanswered.

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

If we could carefully measure the number and energy (wavelength) of all those photons — not only at the present time, but also back in time — we might learn important secrets about the nature and evolution of the Universe, including how similar or different ancient galaxies were compared to the galaxies we see today.

«Hubble spots spiral bridge of young stars linking two ancient galaxies.»

Globular Clusters are a fascinating objects to view and can be easily seen with binoculars, they are groups of ancient stars huddled together and orbiting the central bulge of our galaxy.

The Force is described to Luke in the original Star Wars as the source of a Jedi knight's powers, «an energy field created by all living things» that binds us and the galaxy together, and derided by an Imperial officer as «sorcerer's way» and an «ancient religion.»

STScI / NASA press releases: Hubble Makes the First Precise Distance Measurement to an Ancient Globular Star Cluster Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Deepest View of Space Yields Young Stars in Andromeda Halo Hubble Identifies Source of Ultraviolet Light in an Old Galaxy ESA press releases: Hubble Unmasks Ghost Galaxies Four Unusual Views of the Andromeda Galaxy Public speaking: On the Trail of the Missing Galaxies High - Level Science Products from Large and Treasury Programs: GO - 9453: The Age of the Andromeda Halo (126 orbits) GO - 10265: The Formation History of Andromeda (107 orbits) GO - 10816: The Formation History of Andromeda's Extended Metal - Poor Halo (128 orbits) GO - 11664 / 12666: The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury Program: Populations, Formation History and Planets (56 orbits) GO - 12549: The Formation History of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies (113 orbits)

Shectman investigates the large - scale structure of the distribution of galaxies; searches for ancient stars; develops novel and creative astronomical instruments; and constructs large telescopes.

The destruction of a planet may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but a team of astronomers has found evidence that this may have happened in an ancient globular cluster of stars at the edge of the Milky Way galaxy.

Globular clusters are ancient balls of stars that exist in the halo of galaxies.

Webb will analyze the composition of these ancient stars, and perhaps reveal whether globular clusters formed along with our galaxy or originated somewhere else, and were later absorbed into the galaxy.

Ancient black holes, dwarf galaxies and invisible halos might unlock the secrets of dark matter.

Dr. Shectman investigates the large - scale structure of the distribution of galaxies, searches for ancient stars, develops novel and creative astronomical instruments, and constructs large telescopes.

Two super-Earths have been detected around Kapteyn's Star (an orphan star torn from an ancient dwarf satellite galaxy of the Milky Way), one within its habitable zone (more).

The constellation's formation matches a number of others indexed across ancient human civilization, constituting sufficient evidence to justify aging zillionaire Peter Weylan (Guy Pearce, heavily augmented by prosthetics, and likely some CGI) sending a team of scientists to the far reaches of the galaxy, trailing the origins of human life on a hunch.

Shepard feels the burden not only of that child's death, but of the death of every one of his friends and, most of all, the deaths of all those he leaves behind on Earth as he sets off to complete his final and most important mission: to unite the galaxy under one banner anc construct an ancient super-weapon that is your only hope against the giant, ruthless machines that are now wiping out every trace of life in the galaxy.

The story pack also includes a reworked AI Endgame Crisis called The Contingency and a new Fallen Empire that may spawn in your galaxy — the Ancient Caretakers — made up of machines with a mysterious purpose.

Flinthook puts you in the shoes of the the titular character - the galaxy's smallest space pirate - and tasks you with stopping a malevolent treasure hunter from unleashing an ancient evil across the universe.

The Mass Effect trilogy follows the rise of Commander Shepard from Alliance Marine to becoming the galaxy's most elite soldier — the only soldier who can lead an all - out galactic war against an ancient alien race known as the Reapers.

Frank O'Connor The weird issue with Halo — that the very first game starts with elements of an ancient prophecy, and an all - powerful, galaxy destroying weapon — is that it's really hard to build up from there.

As for the stand - in for mass relays, instead there's ancient Remnant technology from a mysterious, advanced race that can cleanse a planet's atmosphere, acting as a new tool and source of technological intrigue that works well within the fiction of arriving in a hostile new galaxy.