Sentences with phrase «other galaxy shapes»

Not exact matches

The research team of international scientists wanted to figure out if the Milky Way matches the spiral shape observed in other galaxies, as part of a larger study that aims to sharpen our image of our galaxy.

Vogeley, Cai and others in their field are keenly interested in gauging voids» shape, size, distribution and mass (they do have some — they're only virtually empty), much as we've done already for galaxies and clusters.

But the galaxies pull strongly on one another via gravity, distorting their shapes and ripping stars and gas clouds off each other to form so - called tidal tails.

Space - and ground - based telescopes further observed these hermit galaxies to tease out their shapes, rates of star formation and other galactic vital signs.

«Not at this point,» says Sune Toft: «Before we can approach an answer to that question we have to study other «dead» elliptic - shaped galaxies of the same age — and we have started this work.»

Furthermore the stellar motions differs markedly between the two main types: In the Milky Way and in other disk - shaped galaxies stars rotate with a regularity that is predictable — whereas stellar motions in elliptic - shaped galaxies can be seen as rather more chaotic, says Sune Toft: «Here the stars seem to be all over the place, to move in all directions.

The discovery, reported in July by Karl Glazebrook of Johns Hopkins University, calls into question the prevailing theory about when and how the Milky Way and other galaxies began to take shape.

It remains to be seen whether spiral galaxies across the universe owe their distinctive shape to similar events, or whether other effects can trigger the formation of spiral arms.

Hoscheit's new analysis, according to Barger, shows that Keenan's first estimations of the KBC void, which is shaped like a sphere with a shell of increasing thickness made up of galaxies, stars and other matter, are not ruled out by other observational constraints.

NGC 6822, about 1.6 million light - years away, is classified as an irregular dwarf galaxy because of its odd shape and relatively small size compared with other galaxies, such as our own, the Milky Way, and its other neighbors, the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies.

In the background are the blue and red elongated shapes of many other galaxies, which lie at vast distances from us — but which can all be seen by the sharp eye of Hubble.

The image, which shows gas, dust and stars spread across the sky in a disorderly and irregular jumble, also reveals several other, far more distant galaxies that appear as fuzzy shapes in the background.

This spiral galaxy, when seen in visible light, exhibits tightly wound spiral arms that give it a pinwheel shape similar to that of many other spirals.

Though Fibonacci's question concerning the rabbits is an unrealistic scenario, the sequence can be observed in nature, such as in the array of sunflower seeds and other plants, and the shape of galaxies and hurricanes.

Waypoints are another new feature, which is great for marking that phallic - shaped plant you found and named in a different quadrant of the galaxy; you'll also be able to leave sub-space messages for other players, but keep it clean, please.

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