Sentences with phrase «of galaxy groups»

The Virgo III Groups form a very obvious line of galaxy groups on the left side of the Virgo cluster.

This is a list of galaxy groups within 100 million light years according to P Fouqué and co-workers.

IC 335 is part of a galaxy group containing three other galaxies, and located in the Fornax Galaxy Cluster 60 million light - years away.

IC 335 is part of a galaxy group containing three other galaxies, and located in the Fornax Galaxy Cluster 60 million light - years away (Credit: ESA / Hubble & NASA)

Not exact matches

Another crucial debate topic: Are there points of light in a fixed firmament, or are there balls of gas undergoing nuclear fusion grouped into galaxies in an expanding universe.

The idea that a being would create the entire thing — with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about sheep and goats in Iron Age Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.

those stars you see, the light takes hundreds of thousands of years to reach us, and when you see that light from them, you are seeing what they looked like thousands of years ago when that group of photons was thrust out by that star / galaxy, which than takes several light years to reach us, which also means you are looking at the past, thousands and hundreds of thousand of years into the past!

Our Milky Way galaxy is part of the Local Group that consists of some 54 galaxies that is part of the Virgo Supercluster that has at least 100 groups of galaxies that is organized into what is called filaments, like a spider's web, and not scattered randomly.

Joss Whedon tells stories about heroes, whether they're California teenagers slaying vampires, a misfit band of smugglers saving the galaxy, or a group of superheroes repelling an alien invasion.

A group of black parishioners in Georgia will get on their knees, wish for lower gas prices, and the being that created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies will use its telepathic powers to read their minds and will then intervene in World economics to reduce oil prices in the Southern United States.

The idea that a being would create the entire thing — with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.

The idea that a being would create the entire thing — with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH with 100, 000,000,000 stars and even more planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years for human beings to evolve on one planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about sheep and goats in Iron Age Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.»

In fact our entire local group has way stronger a pull, that supermassive black hole probably was significant in imparting the angular momentum of our galaxy, but that's about it.

The belief that an infinitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, chose a small nomadic group of Jews from the 200 million people then alive to be his «favored people» provided they followed some rural laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine equals Judaism.

The lens is known as Abell 2744, a cosmic pileup where four groups of galaxies are colliding to create one gargantuan gathering with the mass of about 2 quadrillion suns (SN: 6/13/15, p. 32).

Thousands of processors, terabytes of data, and months of computing time have helped a group of researchers in Germany create some of the largest and highest resolution simulations ever made of galaxies like our Milky Way.

That massive group of stars, dubbed SXDF - NB1006 - 2, lies about 13.1 billion light - years from Earth and was the oldest known galaxy when it was discovered in 2012 (a record that has been toppled several times since).

Spanish for «the fat one,» El Gordo is the most massive grouping of galaxies in the distant universe.

The difficulty of studying the movements of dwarf satellites around their hosts varies according to the target galaxy group.

The group observed the colossal winds of material — or outflows — that originate near the supermassive black hole at the heart of the pair's southern galaxy, and have found the first clear evidence that stars are being born within them [1].

Asa and his team used data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey to group together over half a million galaxies of all different colours, shapes, and masses.

«Distant galaxy group contradicts common cosmological models, simulations: Astronomers find plane of dwarf satellites orbiting Centaurus A.» ScienceDaily.

Gas filaments (in orange at right) connect scattered groups of galaxies.

Dubbed Dragonfly 44, this nearby group of stars (yellowish smudge at center of right image) was discovered just last year and apparently has less than 1 % the number of stars in our Milky Way galaxy.

Now a group of astronomers led by Asa Bluck of the University of Victoria in Canada have found a (relatively) simple relationship between the colour of a galaxy and the size of its bulge: the more massive the bulge the redder the galaxy.

Our local group comprises Andromeda, the Magellanic Clouds and about 35 other galaxies, all of which lie in an even larger cluster called Virgo.

Perseus Cluster A group of more than a thousand galaxies located 250 million light - years from Earth.

In addition to dark matter studies, WFIRST would «complete the demographic survey of planets orbiting other stars, answer questions about how galaxies and groups of galaxies form, study the atmospheres and compositions ofplanets orbiting other stars, and address other general astrophysics questions,» according to the statement from NASA.

Using techniques drawn from the analysis of music, astronomers have been studying how galaxies form into progressively larger groupings

Something unseeable and far bigger than anything in the known universe is hauling a group of galaxies towards it at inexplicable speed

The Triangulum Galaxy is the third - largest member of the Local Group of galaxies, which includes the Milky Way, the Andromeda Galaxy, and about 50 other smaller galaxies.

The cool star's composition is tricky to study, but astronomers can look at 16 other stars in the same «moving group», all of which orbit the galaxy backwards and are very old.

They appear to be caused by mysterious events beyond our Milky Way Galaxy, and possibly even beyond the Local Group of galaxies that includes the Milky Way.

Most of the universes» galaxies, which each contain billions of stars, are surrounded by up to several thousands of so - called globular clusters, groups of up to a million suns packed into dense spheres by gravity.

To solve this problem, astronomers from Daniel Schaerer's research group at the Department of Astronomy of the Faculty of Sciences, and an international team proposed to observe «green pea» galaxies.

Most likely, dark matter provides the gravitational glue that holds together small groups of galaxies, which merged together to form this cluster.

While a typical galaxy contains billions of stars, a number of tiny galaxies have been found in recent years that do not fit the classic picture and instead resemble the groups of stars known as star clusters.

Rita Tojeiro of the University of St. Andrews is the other co-leader of the BOSS galaxy clustering working group along with Tinker.

Philip Diamond, an astronomer at Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire, UK, says the motions of galaxies in the «Local Group» — the Milky Way's neighbouring galaxies — will reveal the pull of invisible dark matter in the region.

Visible light (second inset) shows a vast, elliptical grouping of stars bisected by a dark lane of dust, which astronomers interpret as the remains of a spiral galaxy that collided with a larger elliptical galaxy.

Our corner of the cosmos, known as the Local Group, includes two giant spiral galaxies — the Milky Way and Andromeda — and smaller satellite galaxies orbiting them.

A composite image shows the galaxy NGC 4522 in the Virgo Cluster, the nearest large cluster of galaxies to our own local group of galaxies, and the «wake» of gas and dust being blown from the galaxy.

But within hours, five groups had identified a new source of light in the periphery of galaxy NGC 4993, which they watched fade from bright blue to dim red in a matter of days.

Draw a line downward from Denebola to the rising constellation of Virgo and you will have located the nearest great cluster of galaxies, the famous Virgo group.

The majority of galaxies are organized into a hierarchy of associations called clusters, which, in turn, can form larger groups called superclusters.

For the past two years, a group calling itself the MACHO collaboration, which includes astronomers in the US, Australia and Britain, has monitored the brightness of stars in the central «bulge» of our Galaxy and in a satellite galaxy known as the Large Magellanic Cloud.

«The region around the Milky Way should look like the Coma cluster,» Kochanek says, referring to a famous, dense grouping of galaxies.

This happened between 1998 and 2005, but nobody had noticed the odd behaviour of this galaxy until late last year, when two groups of scientists preparing the next (fourth) generation of SDSS surveys independently stumbled across these data.

Through a careful monitoring of these supernovas, two research groups were able to determine the distances to galaxies billions of light - years from Earth.

In 1933, the Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky (pictured, right), working at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, applied this principle to the motion of galaxies that make up the Coma cluster, a group of over 1000 galaxies some 300 million light years from us.