Sentences with phrase «same background galaxy»

That arc is actually three separate images of the same background galaxy.

The small white boxes, labeled «a,» «b,» and «c,» mark multiple images from the same background galaxy, one of the farthest, faintest, and smallest galaxies ever seen.

Not exact matches

The gravitational pull of matter in the cluster bends and twists the light from more distant galaxies, producing a plethora of strange optical effects ranging from distorted arcs to multiple images of the same background object.

By precisely locating the same stars in Andromeda in 2002 and then again in 2010, astronomers at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore have calculated how the galaxy has moved against the background of deep space — confirming that the galaxy's sideways motion is but a fraction of the speed at which it's hurtling toward the Milky Way.