Sentences with phrase «other nearby galaxies»

In contrast with these distant galaxies, stars orbiting on the outskirts of the Milky Way and other nearby galaxies move too fast for their velocities to result only from the gravity of gas and stars closer to the galactic center.

Kaaret plans to study Tol 1247 - 232 more closely and find other nearby galaxies that are leaking ultraviolet light, which would help corroborate his theory.

To astronomers in other nearby galaxies it would be a visible as a bright pink spot on the Sagittarius Arm.

The astronomers believe that AzTEC - 3 and the other nearby galaxies appear to be part of the same system, but are not yet gravitationally bound into a clearly defined cluster.

The distance to NGC 4414, 19.1 megaparsecs or about 60 million light - years, along with similarly determined distances to other nearby galaxies, contributes to astronomers» overall knowledge of the rate of expansion of the universe.

High - velocity clouds are vagabond clumps of intergalactic gas, possibly left over from the formation of the Milky Way and other nearby galaxies.