«The fact that
we see young galaxies in the distant universe that have already shut down star formation is remarkable.»
Not exact matches
The
young Welsh astronomer realized the alien had no chance of
seeing the Milky Way, let alone the universe's oodles of dimmer
galaxies.
However, if your goal is to
see stars, planets,
galaxies and other celestial objects then the best time to bring out your telescope is when the moon is new or
young (i.e. as dark as possible).
Young star clusters and clouds of hydrogen that formed in our
galaxy help trace the shapes of the Milky Way's arms, so astronomers are reasonably certain that it has a spiral structure (
see right).
The study, published online today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, describes how the researchers used the powerful MOSFIRE instrument on the W. M. Keck Observatory's 10 - meter telescope in Hawaii to peer into a time when the universe was still very
young and
see what the
galaxy looked like only 670 million years after the big bang.
But around the same time studies of very distant
galaxies, which we
see as they were when the Universe was very
young, were setting constraints on the amount of baryonic matter in the Universe (New Scientist, Science, 30 April).
To verify this rugby - scrimmage view of the early universe, astronomers need to
see even
younger, tinier proto -
galaxies, at about 90 percent of the way back to the Big Bang.
Other so - called hypervelocity stars are thought to have been boosted to their high speeds by close encounters with our
galaxy's supermassive black hole (
see Hypervelocity stars: Catch them while you can), but this star is too
young to have travelled all the way from the centre of the Milky Way.
Astronomers have
seen them shooting out of
young stars just being formed, X-ray binary stars and even the supermassive black holes at the centers of large
galaxies.
The newfound
young star clusters lie thousands of light - years below the plane of our Milky Way
galaxy, a flat spiral disk
seen in this artist's conception.
There aren't any monstrous
galaxies left in the modern Universe, but astronomers believe that these
young galaxies matured into giant elliptical
galaxies which are
seen in the modern Universe.
The new ALMA data show that these
young galaxies are already rotating, which is one of the hallmarks of the massive spiral
galaxies we
see in the universe today.
The satellite
galaxies, KDG 61, BK5N, and IKN can not be
seen in the maps of
young stars, but appear as over-densities of old populations.
«Extremely massive
galaxies are
seen in the
young universe, but their presence is puzzling because we do not yet understand how they became so massive so quickly.
u «Extremely massive
galaxies are
seen in the
young universe, but their presence is puzzling because we do not yet understand how they became so massive so quickly.
In addition, hundreds of individual
young, luminous stars can be
seen throughout the
galaxy.
This usually is
seen in
young galaxies, massive
galaxies, or in
galaxies that have experienced close encounters with companions, stirring up the material and sending it close enough to the black hole to be gobbled up.
A nearby companion
galaxy, NGC 5195, off the edge of this image, gravitational pull is triggering star formation in the main
galaxy, as
seen in brilliant detail by numerous, luminous clusters of
young and energetic stars.
They might also determine if star formation processes in the bulge billions of years ago were different from what's
seen in the
younger disk of our
galaxy.
Astronomers now have very strong evidence that the peculiar colors of early
galaxies seen in the Spitzer images originate from a very rapid formation of massive,
young stars, which interacted with the primordial gas in these
galaxies.
Hubble has
seen back to a time when the universe was
young and
galaxies were newly born.
During that 2014 observing session, she and Cluver
saw indications that many of their identified
galaxies host
young stars.
The 50 - year - old actress plays Vice Admiral Holdo in the eighth installment of the sci - fi saga and she has
seen a difference in how her
younger fans react around her since she stepped foot in a
galaxy far, far away.