Sentences with phrase «oldest known galaxy»
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).
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One of the oldest known galaxies in the universe is now home to the oldest oxygen yet spotted, a new study suggests.
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Let's face it, the belief that an infitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, will cause people to survive their own phsical deaths and live happily ever after in heaven, if they follow some random laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine = Judaism.
Catholicism is the belief that an infinitely old, all - knowing, super-being, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies (each with billions of stars and planets) impregnated a late Iron Age Jewish virgin with himself, to give birth to himself and then sacrifice himself to himself to «forgive» the original sin of a couple we now all know never existed.
The belief that an infinitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, will cause people to survive their own physical deaths and live happily ever after in heaven, if they follow some random laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine = Judaism.
The belief that an infitely old, all - knowing sky - god, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, will cause people to survive their own phsical deaths and live happily ever after in heaven, if they follow some random laws laid down in Bronze Age Palestine = Judaism.
Christianity is the belief that an infinitely - old, all - knowing, immortal being, powerful enough to create the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies, has a personal interest in my $ ex life.
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.
TThe Andromeda Galaxy (also known as Messier 31, M31, or NGC 224; older texts often called it the Andromeda Nebula) is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light - years away in the constellation Andromeda.
They are among the oldest known stellar systems in the Universe and have survived through almost the entire span of galaxy growth and evolution.
«So because of this work, we now know that galaxies rotate once every billion years, with a sharp edge that's populated with a mixture of interstellar gas, with both old and young stars.»
They're seeing galaxies that are between, you know, 12 and 13 billion years old, which is basically almost as old as the universe itself.
Several methods are used, such as exploiting the known luminosities of old stars that are just beginning to burn Helium in their cores, and the relationship between the rotation speed of galaxies and the number of stars they possess.
They are among the oldest known stellar systems in the Universe and date back to near the beginning of galaxy growth and evolution.
The team behind the research is still working on a paper that shares more of what they were able to learn about the newly discovered galaxy, but they do know it's full of relatively old stars and is no longer making new ones.
Since Omega Centauri is thought to be Kapteyn's star place of origin, scientists estimate that its planets must be approximately 11.5 to 12 billion years old, thus making Kapteyn b not only the oldest known possibly habitable exoplanet to date, but, along with Kapteyn c, the first that might have originated from another galaxy, outside of the Milky Way.
A half - mile down in an old iron ore mine in Minnesota, incredibly sensitive detectors have been waiting for a particle of dark matter, an invisible substance that may form the skeleton of galaxies, to make itself known.
As a halo field star with the lowest metallicity known for any Milky Way star in late October 2002, HE 0107 - 5420 appears to be even older than the ancient stars found in the galaxy's globular clusters such as 47 Tucana, at left.
The newly discovered «proto - cluster» of galaxies, observed when the universe was only 1.7 billion years old (12 percent of its present age), is one of the most massive structures known at that distance.
Knowing the abundance of oxygen in the galaxy called COSMOS - 1908 is an important stepping stone toward allowing astronomers to better understand the population of faint, distant galaxies observed when the Universe was only a few billion years old, Shapley said.
Galaxy clusters are commonly observed in the present - day universe and contain some of the oldest and most massive galaxies known.
His perilous journey to defeat the tyrannical Dominion takes him across the known galaxy as he grows to become the greatest magical warrior since the mages of old.
There were some highlights, including Star Wars Galaxies (which didn't quite work out, but was a solid attempt), and Bioware's Knights of the Old Republic, but no longer was the LucasArts logo a reason to buy anything.