Sentences with phrase «of distant galaxies»

As they could reveal themselves in images of distant galaxies, the search is on.

This is akin to astronomical observations of a distant galaxy, say, made with an optical telescope collecting photons of visible light.

Its primary 5 - inch mirror offers crisp, intimate views of the moon and bright planets, and provides an entry into views of distant galaxies and star clusters.

Light from the stars of distant galaxies can travel for thousands of years before we see it.

A team of hundreds of physicists and astronomers have announced results from the largest - ever, three - dimensional map of distant galaxies.

It looked like the ordinary glow of a distant galaxy — the one, presumably, that had emitted the sudden burst.

The discovery provides a rare opportunity to directly measure the mass of a distant galaxy.

The images of distant galaxies are slightly distorted by the gravitational field generated by the foreground dark matter distribution.

Powerful jets emitted from the centers of distant galaxies make for spectacular signposts in the radio sky.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) have discovered jets of plasma blasted from the cores of distant galaxies at speeds within one - tenth of one percent of the speed of light, placing these plasma jets among the fastest objects yet seen in the Universe.

Every 12 years, a black hole at the centre of a distant galaxy completes an orbit around an even bigger black hole, marking this with a violent outburst

Oliver Tunnah, a regular user of the FTs took this great image of the distant galaxy cluster Abell 2065 during one session on FTS.

Ongoing studies of distant galaxy protoclusters using the Multi-Object Infrared Camera and Spectrograph (MOIRCS) instrument on the Subaru Telescope is giving astronomers a closer look at the characteristics of star - forming regions in galaxies in the early universe.

This has made it virtually impossible to detect, except for its effects when it exerts a gravitational tug or when it warps the light of distant galaxies in what is called gravitational lensing.

Now the researchers hope that future observations of a large number of distant galaxies using the ALMA telescopes could help unravel how frequently such evolved galaxies occur in this very early epoch of the history of the universe.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — A group of researchers, led by a University of California, Riverside graduate student, observed distant galaxies with the MOSFIRE high - resolution near - infrared spectrometer at W. M. Keck Observatory and their results will help to build the foundations of galaxy evolution studies by predicting the star - formation rate of distant galaxies from the light they emit.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Long Baseline Array have discovered jets of plasma blasted from the cores of distant galaxies at speeds within one - tenth of one percent of the speed of light, placing these plasma jets among the fastest objects yet seen in the Universe.

Shapes of distant galaxies in this image from the Hubble Space Telescope are warped by the mass of a galaxy cluster closer to Earth — a distortion predicted by general relativity.

By the 1930s, American astronomers Vesto Melvin Slipher and Edwin Hubble had measured the movement of distant galaxies, convincing everyone — even Einstein — that the universe was expanding, despite it all.

John Webb, an astronomer at the University of New South Wales in Australia, was studying the fine - structure constant, which governs the strength of the force between charged particles, in a large number of distant galaxies.

A stream of hundreds of distant galaxy clusters is moving towards the edge of the visible universe towards a region between constellations Centaurus and Vela (more).

During its five - year primary mission, NASA's Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope has given astronomers an increasingly detailed portrait of the universe's most extraordinary phenomena, from giant black holes in the hearts of distant galaxies to thunderstorms on Earth.

The team discovered the galaxy's peculiar features while conducting a Hubble survey of distant galaxies unleashing powerful blasts of radiation in the throes of galaxy mergers.

Indeed, GRBs appear to emit produce even more energy than supernovae or even quasars (which are energetically bright accretion disks and bi-polar jets around supermassive black holes that are most commonly found in the active nuclei of some distant galaxies and possibly even in the pre-galaxy period after the Big Bang).

This new NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the galaxy IC 335 in front of a backdrop of distant galaxies.

This should allow users to calculate distances to some of the Universe's most remote objects, such as quasars, the luminous cores of distant galaxies containing giant black holes.

Because light travels at a finite speed, the images we see of distant galaxies are made of light that left the galaxies long ago; the farther the galaxy, the farther back in time we're peering.

«The bulk of the distant galaxies we found are only about 3 thousand light years across in size, while our Milky Way is about 30 times larger.

During tests of a new camera, Víctor Buso captured images of a distant galaxy before and after the supernova's «shock breakout» — when a supersonic pressure wave from the exploding core of the star hits and heats gas at the star's surface to a very high temperature, causing it to emit light and rapidly brighten.

If the expansion is slowing down, the velocity of a distant galaxy would be relatively greater than the velocity predicted by Hubble's law.

To carry out its dark energy mission, DES takes snapshots of hundreds of millions of distant galaxies.

Their huge luminosity helps astronomers to map out the location of distant galaxies, something the team exploited.

In addition, spectra, where light is dispersed across wavelengths, allowing astronomers to deduce properties like composition and temperature, have been taken of distant galaxies and black holes.

Later thinkers, including the Austrian physicist Ernst Mach, developed the idea that the fixed stars (we would now refer to the averaged positions of distant galaxies) actually define the standard of rest.

Now, Olivier Le Fèvre of the Astrophysical Laboratory in Marseille, France, and his colleagues have used a powerful spectrograph on the 8.2 - meter VLT of the European Southern Observatory in Chile to rigorously measure precise redshifts of thousands of distant galaxies.

Observations of a distant galaxy suggest there may be less ordinary matter in the universe than previously thought

This view shows how the new MUSE instrument on ESO's Very Large Telescope gives a innovative three - dimensional depiction of a distant galaxy.

SINFONI could make these detailed measurements of distant galaxies thanks to its adaptive optics system, which largely cancels out the blurring effects of Earth's atmosphere.

The red shift is a shift in the lines in the spectra of distant galaxies and quasars towards the red end of the spectrum.

Although the warping of distant galaxies proved too subtle to see one by one, Mandelbaum found that she could analyze the shapes of millions of background galaxies and detect a statistical departure from what such galaxies would normally look like.

Astronomers have uncovered a supermassive black hole that has been propelled out of the center of a distant galaxy by what could be the awesome power of gravitational waves.

For years scientists have searched for «dark matter» to make Einstein's theory of gravity match the actual motions of distant galaxies.

«This important discovery — together with the detection of distant galaxies — is elucidating the conditions of the universe during the reionization epoch.

A study of gravitationally - lensed images of four radio - quiet quasars has revealed the structure of these distant galaxies in unprecedented detail.

Radio / Optical combination images of distant galaxies as seen with NSF's Very Large Array and NASA's Hubble Space Telescope.

Macchetto and his colleagues believe that the galaxy may belong to a cluster of distant galaxies lying in front of the quasar.

The Atacama Large Millimeter / Submillimeter Array (ALMA), a massive observatory now under construction five kilometers above sea level in Chile, should further illuminate the workings of distant galaxies when it opens for scientific use in 2011.

By JOHN BARROW Mathematics is the language scientists rely on to describe everything in the physical world, from the inner space of elementary particles to the outer space of distant galaxies.

An analysis of the distant galaxy shows that it measures merely 850 light - years across, 500 times smaller than the Milky Way, and is estimated to have a mass of only 40 million suns.