Sentences with phrase «rich galaxy cluster»

This image is dominated by a spectacular view of the rich galaxy cluster Abell 2744 from the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

This spectacular view from the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the rich galaxy cluster Abell 1689.

Kashlinsky's WMAP analysis found that hundreds of gas - rich galaxy clusters appeared to be streaming towards a region in the sky between the constellations Vela and Centaurus.

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What this means is that it guarantees crystal - clear and contrast - rich views of deep sky objects, like galaxies, nebulae, planets, and sparkling star clusters.

Star clusters and galaxies both contain stars bound together by gravity, but while the members of a star cluster are thought to form simultaneously from a collapsing ball of gas, galaxies have richer histories.

The constellation of Virgo (The Virgin) is especially rich in galaxies, due in part to the presence of a massive and gravitationally - bound collection of over 1300 galaxies called the Virgo Cluster.

Among the stunning shots taken this week were those of the Lagoon Nebula, about 3600 light years away from Earth; the 47 Tucanae cluster of several million ancient stars about 15,000 light years from Earth; and the face - on barred spiral galaxy NGC 6744 in the star - rich southern constellation of Pavo, about 30 million light years away.

Captured using the exceptional sky - surveying abilities of the VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile, this deep view reveals the secrets of the luminous members of the Fornax Cluster, one of the richest and closest galaxy clusters to the Milky Way.

«Rich groups of galaxies like the Coma Cluster are very, very rare, but there are quite a few galaxies the size of NGC 1600 that reside in average - size galaxy groups,» Ma said.

Interestingly, the gas - rich galaxies detected with ALMA are located towards the outer part of the galaxy cluster, not in the center.

Most gas rich galaxies are located in the outer part, not the center, of the galaxy cluster (around the center of the image).

The large amount of star formation and the «beads on a string» feature in the core of SpARCS1049 +56 are likely the result of the Brightest Cluster Galaxy in the process of gobbling up a gas - rich spiral galaxy.

Other clusters with hundreds to thousands of galaxies are called rich clusters.

This image made from data obtained with the NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the dust lanes and star clusters of this giant galaxy that give evidence that it was formed from a past merger of two gas - rich galaxies (Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)-RRB-

«Not only will we learn about the formation of the black holes, but these new data from Hubble help us connect globular clusters to galaxies, providing information on one of the most important unsolved problems in astronomy today: how galaxy structure forms in the universe,» adds Michael Rich of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

This is very common in very rich clusters - the elliptical / lenticular galaxies are usually found in the centre, and the spiral / irregular galaxies are usually found in the outer regions.

This is partly because it is a very rich cluster containing thousands of galaxies.

In a separate observing program, a team led by Rich, and including Gebhardt and Luis Ho of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, found a 20,000 - solar - mass black hole in the giant globular cluster G1, located 70 times farther - 2.2 million light - years away - in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy.

A team of researchers from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, used data collected by NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) spacecraft to pinpoint star clusters located in the resource rich environment of the spiral arms, and use them as markers to trace the structure of our galaxy.

The Sombrero lies at the southern edge of the rich Virgo cluster of galaxies and is one of the most massive objects in that group, equivalent to 800 billion suns.