Sentences with phrase «of local galaxies»

The most massive of these local galaxies may, however, house old quasars at their cores.

Work on infrared studies of local galaxy clusters took me to the International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) in 2007 where I won the Bok Second Prize.

At one specific energy range, about a 4 % difference in direction reported (from the center of our local galaxy, in the direction of the constellation Cygnus): http://www.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~erina/English.html

Not exact matches

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.

Then light was liberated, and then gravity created the first stars and galaxies, then billions of years later, a local star went supernova and seeded the local nebula with heavier elements, elements necessary for life, elements that were not created during the Big Bang, then the sun was born, then the planets coalesced, and billions of years later some primate wrote a story about how the Earth was created at the same time as the rest of the universe, getting it wrong because that primate did not have the science nor technology to really understand what happened, so he gave it his best guess, most likely an iteration of an older story told prior to the advent of the Judeo Christian religion.

To calculate the local gravitational constant according to Whitehead's theory, Will assumes that all the mass of our galaxy (1011 solar masses) is concentrated at a point 20,000 light - years from the earth — the distance of the earth from the center of the galaxy.

Our galaxy is part of a local cluster of other galaxies.

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.

Computational analysis of Sloan's prodigious data set has uncovered evidence of some of the earliest known astronomical objects, determined that most large galaxies harbor supermassive black holes, and even mapped out the three - dimensional structure of the local universe.

Journey up from the smallest particles, past the moons and planets of the Solar System, out through the Oort Cloud to the Milky Way, past our Local Stars and out to distant galaxies before arriving, finally, at the edge of the known Universe.

Journey up from the smallest particles, past the moons and planets of the Solar System, out through the Milky Way, past our Local Stars and then to distant galaxies before arriving, finally, at the edge of the known Universe.

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

In the distant future, astronomers may mistakenly conclude that the entire universe consists of just a handful of galaxies in our local vicinity because all the distant galaxies are receding from us so fast that light can not reach us.

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.

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.

«We have many independent lines of reasoning that lead us to the conclusion that we have substantial amounts of dark matter in the local part of our galaxy,» says dark matter theorist Dan Hooper at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois.

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.

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.

A graphic representation maps the local superclusters of galaxies in our universe, but also something else: vast tracts where few galaxies exist, called voids.

The galaxies were then divided into those that are central to their local environment (the center of gravity) and those that roam around in their host environments (satellites).

The Milky Way, the galaxy we live in, is part of a cluster of more than 50 galaxies that make up the «Local Group», a collection that includes the famous Andromeda galaxy and many other far smaller objects.

More local galaxies may be unduly influenced by the gravity of local clumps of matter.

(I never did, but my undergrad adviser, Martha Haynes, uses Arecibo to study the distribution of galaxies in the local universe.)

«This new insight may force us to rethink the whole cosmological context of how galaxies burn out early on and evolve into local elliptical - shaped galaxies,» said study leader Sune Toft of the Dark Cosmology Center at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Previous studies of distant dead galaxies have assumed that their structure is similar to the local elliptical galaxies they will evolve into.

These observations have the power of penetrating through interstellar dust and so to unveil the star formation processes in the very distant, dusty galaxies, that constituted the progenitors of local ellipticals.

At least within the Local Supercluster of galaxies, there is highly significant evidence for a regular spacing corresponding to a red shift difference of 37.6 + - 2 kilometres per second.

This marks the edge of the Local Supercluster, the gathering of galaxies which includes our own galaxy, the Milky Way.

Our Milky Way belongs to a meager gathering of about 54 galaxies called the Local Group.

The Milky Way and Andromeda are siblings: two great spirals that dominate our local group of galaxies.

You can picture the place where you live as the outer arm of a spiral galaxy, in a remote region of the Local Supercluster, in the boondocks of Laniakea.

«For the first time, we are not only visualizing the detailed structure of our Local Supercluster of galaxies but we are seeing how the structure developed over the history of the universe.

«We are beginning to paint a picture of what our local interstellar environment is really like and we can tie that to what's happening in a much broader environment within the galaxy.

Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is part of a collection of galaxies known as the Local Group.

These nearby objects include the Local Supercluster, a vast assemblage of galaxies to which our Galaxy, the Milky Way, belongs and the coma cluster, a galaxy cluster that lies a few hundred million light years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices.

Zoom out farther and our local group of galaxies is yanked toward «the Great Attractor,» a mysterious concentration of mass beyond the constellation Virgo.

All are members of the Local Group of galaxies.

The newly discovered black hole is in a galaxy, NGC 1600, in the opposite part of the sky from the Coma Cluster in a relative desert, said the leader of the discovery team, Chung - Pei Ma, a UC Berkeley professor of astronomy and head of the MASSIVE Survey, a study of the most massive galaxies and black holes in the local universe with the goal of understanding how they form and grow supermassive.

They said CID - 947 could be a precursor of the most extreme, massive systems observed in today's local universe, such as the galaxy NGC 1277 in the Perseus constellation, 220 million light years from the Milky Way.

In 1999 Rien van de Weygaert of the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and Yehuda Hoffman of Hebrew University in Jerusalem argued that the Local Volume is caught in a cosmic tug - of - war between surrounding galaxy clusters.

Every galaxy of sufficient mass in the Local Group has an associated group of globular clusters, and almost every large galaxy surveyed has been found to possess a system of globular clusters.

Most of known space will fly off into the darkness, isolating our local group of galaxies in its own lonely pocket universe.

The Milky Way is part of the Local Group of galaxies, which in turn is part of the Local Volume, about 30 million light - years in radius.

This is the first endeavor beyond the Local Group of galaxies to demonstrate the hierarchical galaxy assembly process on galactic scales.

A new Hubble Space Telescope image centers on the 100 - million - solar - mass black hole at the hub of the neighboring spiral galaxy M31, or the Andromeda galaxy, one of the few galaxies outside the Milky Way visible to the naked eye and the only other giant galaxy in the Local Group.

«This is the first endeavor beyond the Local Group of galaxies to demonstrate the hierarchical galaxy assembly process on galactic scales,» said team member Dr. Sakurako Okamoto (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory).

Explanation: Nestled within the dusty arms of the large spiral galaxy Andromeda (M31), the star cluster NGC 206 is one of the largest star forming regions known in our local group of galaxies.

Note the absence of any major galaxy groups above us on the map, this area is known as the Local Void, it is a sparse region of space with a diameter of over 100 million light years although it is not completely empty - there are some individual galaxies populating this region.

The Andromeda galaxy, also called M31, is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way and the largest in the local group of galaxies.