Out of the billions
of galaxies in the universe Out of the billions of systems and planets Out of the hundreds of gods humans have produced You have the hubris to think that your little god listens to your prayers And if you don't believe then that little loving god will burn you for eternity.
Not exact matches
I can't claim to be providing certainly accurate information on this, since it's been a while since I've done relevant physics reading (lay books, not academic), but
in the early
universe (before inflation went
out of control) there were irregularities that gave rise to clumping, from which the first stars and
galaxies originated.
Inflation was conceived
in 1980 by MIT physicist Alan Guth to explain why the observable
universe is so flat and smooth, with
galaxies distributed evenly throughout space and with almost exactly the right amount
of mass to balance
out its expansion.
By learning about the change that the first stars and
galaxies imposed on the
universe, Hewitt said, HERA will help scientists figure
out if the larger picture — the story — that they've pieced together about the emergence
of luminous objects
in the cosmos is correct.
If the theory
of leptogenesis turns
out to be right, then everything we see
in the
universe, from
galaxies to DNA, descends from particles that were once thought to barely qualify as matter.
Spinning the Cosmic Web The first inkling
of the gaping holes
in the
universe's distribution
of galaxies came
in the late 1970s, when astronomers began sketching
out the three - dimensional structure
of the cosmos.
The trouble was, nobody could figure
out where the gamma - ray bursts were —
in and around our Milky Way
galaxy or at the far reaches
of the
universe.
The only objects that fit that bill are comets at the edge
of the solar system,
in the so - called Oort cloud, and
galaxies far
out in the
universe.
When the
universe was one - fifth
of its current age — about 3 billion years old —
galaxies were pumping
out stars like mad, the equivalent
of 100 suns per year — 100 times the rate
in our Milky Way today.
If the
galaxies turn
out to be very old, a distinct possibility, it may mean that astronomers will have to revise not only their count
of the number
of galaxies in the
universe but the history
of galaxies as well.
Dwarf
galaxies, amorphous blobs
of only tens
of millions
of stars, were cranking
out nearly a third
of the new stars
in the
universe from about 8 billion to 10 billion years ago, according to new research posted June 17 on arXiv.org.
Dwarf
galaxies ferociously churned
out stars
in the early
universe, according to new Hubble Space Telescope observations
of a patch
of sky
in the constellation Ursa Major.
«It turns
out that the contribution
of star - forming
galaxies as tracers
of the mass distribution
in the distant
universe is not negligible,» said Dr. Utsumi.
The variations
in the CMB's temperature also trace
out slight fluctuations
in the density
of the nascent
universe, which eventually seeded the
galaxies.
Thanks to the dry, clear atmosphere at the South Pole, SPT is better able to «look» at the cosmic microwave background — the thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang — and map
out the location
of galaxy clusters, which are hundreds to thousands
of galaxies that are bound together gravitationally and among the largest objects
in the
universe.
WMAP tells us that all the stuff we can see or even hope to see
in the
universe — stars,
galaxies, gas, and dust — is just 4.4 percent
of what is
out there.
Galaxies in every corner
of the
universe have been sending
out photons, or light particles, since nearly the beginning
of time.
She combines cosmological hydrodynamic simulations and analytic theory to figure
out how the tiny fluctuations
in density that were present when the
universe was only 300 thousand years old, become the
galaxies and black holes that we see now, after 14 billion years
of cosmic evolution.
originate from fusion reactions
in the heart
of stars and are spewed
out when those stars explode as supernovae, the relatively high metallicity
of the
galaxy suggests that it had already seen the birth and death
of generations
of stars by the time the
universe was 700 million years old.»
The idea goes like this: Early
in the
universe's history, large
galaxies grew
out of collisions and mergers
of smaller
galaxies.
This phenomenon is what makes NGC 4696 stand
out from among the other members
of the Centaurus cluster, making it one
of the biggest and brightest
galaxies in the observable
universe.