Sentences with phrase «plane of the galaxy»

This particular «bone» is millions of times more massive than the sun and lies in the central plane of the galaxy's disk.

Eventually a field that started out with a basically vertical orientation gets converted to a field that lies in the horizontal plane of the galaxy.

The Pelican lines up parallel to the plane of the galaxy, Kassim notes, whereas all other bands are perpendicular.

A team led by astronomer Steven Majewski of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville sorted through a half - billion objects in the 2MASS catalog to find several thousand M giants, a distinctive class of red - giant star common in the Sagittarius dwarf but rarely seen above or below the plane of our galaxy.

The so - called Fermi bubbles tower more than 30,000 light - years above and below the plane of the galaxy.

Portegies Zwart says the best place to look is in the plane of the galaxy, in the constellations of Vela and Cygnus, along the sun's trajectory around the galactic center.

Some of the matter, however, gets so hot it escapes along the black hole's spin axis, creating an outflow that extends far above and below the plane of a galaxy.

One of Fermi's most striking results so far was the discovery of giant bubbles extending more than 25,000 light - years above and below the plane of our galaxy.

That phenomenon, Heinz and his colleagues recognized, could give astronomers an opportunity to use the geometry of the rings and a time delay between deflected and undeflected X-rays to calculate the distance to Circinus X-1, a measurement previously unobtainable because the supernova is hidden in the dust that permeates the plane of our galaxy.

«Distance measurements in astronomy are difficult, especially to sources like Circinus X-1, which are hidden in the plane of the galaxy behind a thick layer of dust — which makes it basically impossible to observe them with optical telescopes.

Located in the plane of the galaxy, Circinus X-1 is the glowing husk of a binary star system that exploded a mere 2,500 years ago.

«Many of these ghostly butterflies appear to have their long axes aligned along the plane of our galaxy.

A group of astrophysicists has located two massive bubbles of plasma, each extending tens of thousands of light - years, emitting high - energy radiation above and below the plane of the galaxy.

Those jets could blast into the interstellar medium above and below the plane of the galaxy and form bubbles that emit gamma rays.

Over millions of years the ongoing turbulence stirs the fields together like cream in coffee, forming one giant field that is perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy.

In the standard theory of galactic magnetism, says Rosner, the rising and spinning of the interstellar clouds twists their magnetic fields out of the plane of the galaxy.

As the charged particles orbit the black hole, they generate a magnetic field perpendicular to their motion — and to the plane of the galaxy.

Those nebulae that are butterfly - shaped or hourglass - shaped tend to be mysteriously aligned such that their rotation axis is perpendicular to the plane of our galaxy.

They seem to be distorted and displaced above the plane of the galaxy.

The Chandra X-ray image reveals huge bubbles of hot gas above and below the plane of the galaxy.

These features, or anomalous arms, are not aligned with the plane of the galaxy, but instead intersect with it.

Now, at least 2 million years later, astronomers are witnessing the aftermath of the explosion: billowing clouds of gas towering about 30,000 light - years above and below the plane of our galaxy.

A lot of the galaxies in this group lie directly behind the plane of our galaxy and are hidden by all the intervening gas, dust and stars.

The sun moves in the plane of the galaxy on the outskirts of one of its spiral arms at a speed of 220 kilometers per second (136 miles per second).

Astronomers have recently discovered nine more additional such candidate objects below the plane of the galaxy, shown here in red.

In 1968, the Italian astronomer Paolo Maffei discovered two galaxies hidden behind the plane of our galaxy and thus heavily obscured by interstellar matter.

A keen eye can spot exquisite elliptical galaxies and spectacular spirals, seen at various orientations: edge - on with the plane of the galaxy visible, face - on to show off magnificent spiral arms, and everything in between.