Sentences with phrase «other galaxy groups»
Another large collection of spiral galaxies in Canes Venatici, the dominant members are probably M106, NGC 4096 and NGC 4490, but there are many other galaxy groups in this area of the sky and this whole region is known as the Canes Cloud.
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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 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.
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.
Like revelers on a ship, the galaxies in our group will continue to collide and interact in myriad interesting ways, but we will be forever separated from the revelers on other ships sailing away from us in the vast universe.
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.
Rita Tojeiro of the University of St. Andrews is the other co-leader of the BOSS galaxy clustering working group along with Tinker.
It wasn't until the 20th century that Edwin Hubble confirmed that, though some nebulae are gas clouds and some are star groups within our galaxy, others are galaxies outside the Milky Way — their own «island universes.»
Even the galaxies in our Local Group will eventually either subsume each other or fly apart as emptiness asserts its reign.
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.
The new model is expected to motivate studies of galaxy clusters and groups, as well as the development of other unified models of high - energy cosmic particles.
Among other things, the new map will help astronomers to understand and explain the motion of the Milky Way, which is apparently being tugged by the gravity of neighboring groups and clusters of galaxies, says 2MASS team member Karen Masters of the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom, who presented the it here at the summer meeting of the American Astronomical Society.
From a small blue planet, tiny conscious parts of our universe have begun gazing out into the cosmos with telescopes, repeatedly discovering that everything they thought existed is merely a small part of something grander: a solar system, a galaxy and a universe with over a hundred billion other galaxies arranged into an elaborate pattern of groups, clusters and superclusters.
Clusters grow through the accretion of gas from these large - scale filaments and through mergers with other clusters and groups of galaxies.
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.
There are many other groups of galaxies scattered around these two clusters and collectively these groups are often called the Fornax Supercluster or Southern Supercluster.
This map shows 600 of the brightest galaxies within 7.5 degrees of the centre of the cluster - this is an arbitary border, there are many other galaxies beyond this limit especially to the south of the cluster where there are several additional galaxy groups.
IC 335 is part of a galaxy group containing three other galaxies, and located in the Fornax Galaxy Cluster 60 million light - years away.
UGC8331, M51, NGC5195, M101, NGC5474, NGC5477, NGC5585 and UGC9405 are all definite members of this group - the other galaxies are less certain.
The Milky Way system is near one end of the volume of space occupied by the Local Group, and the great Andromeda galaxy (M31) is near the other end, about 2,000,000 light - years away.
It is a very obscured galaxy which lies twenty degrees to the south of the group on the other side of the Milky Way.
Some other examples of spiral galaxies are M31 (the Andromeda Galaxy) and M33 (a small spiral in the Local Group).
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)
From its stellar contents, it is resembling other low surface brightness members of the local group such as the Sculptor dwarf galaxy, but it is so highly obscured that it was hidden up to the 1994 investigation.
Even its globular clusters are oddballs: they are twice as large as typical stellar groupings seen in other galaxies.
This is true for both isolated galaxies and for galaxies that live amongst other galaxies in large groups and clusters.
Messier 66 is the most prominent member of the Leo Triplet, also known as the M66 Group, which consists of M66, M65, NGC 3628 and possibly two other galaxies.
The Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which, in addition to the Milky Way, also contains the Triangulum Galaxy, and about 30 other smaller galaxies.
The galaxies in the two groups are physically close to each other and the groups seem to not be moving relative to each other, so they are often identified as a single galaxy group.
A new group show at Kopeikin Gallery organized by Katie Shapiro and Sean Higgins explores the idea of the «transporter» as used in science fiction — the object or device that allow people to travel from one side of the galaxy to the other.