Sentences with phrase «of distant star clusters»

Stars in the Milky Way appear to be missing some of the element lithium, and new observations of a distant star cluster confirm that the problem isn't unique to our galaxy.

Not exact matches

The message, he suggested, could be sent in the spare time of the Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, which astronomer Frank Drake used to send a coded message to a distant star cluster in 1974.

GALACTIC QUARTET The way invisible dark matter warped the light from distant galaxies, shown here as the swirl of material surrounding four giant galaxies in cluster Abell 3827 (seen in this Hubble Space Telescope photograph), suggested that dark matter can separate from stars when galaxies collide.

Remarkably, the distribution of star - forming galaxies around a cluster of galaxies in the more distant universe (5 billion years ago) corresponds much more closely with the weak lensing map than a slice of the more nearby universe (3 billion years ago).

If the light from a distant galaxy reaches us having passed through a cluster of say, four stars, she wondered, then how many images might we see?

Now, as the newest Star Trek film hits cinemas, the NASA / ESA Hubble space telescope is also exploring new frontiers, observing distant galaxies in the galaxy cluster Abell S1063 as part of the Frontier Fields programme.

Four distant stars may be the remains of a globular star cluster that was torn apart when it passed through the disc of the Milky Way.

Gillian Wilson, professor of physics and astronomy at UC Riverside, added, «Fascinatingly, however, the study found that the percentage of galaxies which had stopped forming stars in those young, distant clusters, was much lower than the percentage found in much older, nearby clusters.

An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant massive galaxy cluster with a core bursting with new stars.

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array is used to study the formation of planets, stars, distant galaxies, galaxy clusters and interstellar matter.

Located in the constellation Taurus the Bull, the Pleiades is an open cluster of stars about 400 light years distant.

When they turned the Hubble Space Telescope on a distant globular cluster of stars, astronomers expected to find fifteen or twenty planets.

MAUNAKEA, Hawaii — An international team of astronomers has discovered a distant massive galaxy cluster with a core bursting with new stars.

Some of the new results included deeper understandings of galaxies in the distant universe, more complete pictures of the massive galaxy clusters, and the searches for exploding massive stars, called supernovae.

Subsequently, however, an even more distant quasar with a tentative redshift of z = 6.40 was announced on January 9, 2003, near the SDSS detection limit of a redshift of z ~ 6.5 for bright quasars, and other teams of astronomers detected even more distant, fast - star - forming irregular proto - galaxies, including: gravitationally - lensed HCM 6A behind galaxy cluster Abell 370 with a redshift of z ~ 6.56, which appears to be converting about 40 Solar - masses into stars annually; (PhysicsWeb; IFA press release; Hu et al, 2002, in pdf; and erratum); and the possible «superwind - galaxy» LAE J1044 - 0130 (Subaru press release; and Ajiki et al, 2002, in pdf).

Diffuse nebulae were longly be considered as distant, unresolved star clusters or star clouds, until in the 1860s spectroscopy revealed their gaseous nature by showing line spectra, in particular due to the pioneering research of William Huggins.

Westerlund 1 is the most massive cluster of stars in our galaxy, home to several hundred of thousand stars, and is the closest analogue to some of the truly massive star clusters seen in distant galaxies.

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.