Sentences with phrase «seen clusters this size»

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In a 2015 study, Pieter van Dokkum of Yale University and colleagues announced they had unearthed 47 never - before - seen, Milky Way - sized yet extremely diffuse (spread out, so relatively dim) galaxies in the Coma Cluster of galaxies, among the most studied in astronomy.

Those clusters snowballed in size, and galaxies as we see them today grew up inside colossal, near - spherical blobs of dark matter.

The sweeping 2dF map reveals hundreds of clusters that are about the same size as those seen in previous surveys but no larger, says astronomer Gavin Dalton of the University of Oxford in England.

But the magnification needed to see physics at work on this scale would be equivalent to blowing an atom up to the size of a galaxy cluster.

The limestone crags of Railay Bay, Thailand; the gleaming white hillside town of Mojácar, Spain; the torch - lit tour of caves in central Vietnam full of hand - sized spiders and their glinting jewel - like clusters for eyes; the volcano - pierced horizon of central Mexico; the humbling beauty and breadth of national parks in New South Wales, Australia — these all have similar proportions in my memory to Angkor, in that they compare favorably to what I've seen in video games.

I even saw mention of experiments where humidity determined the size at which dust clustered — and how this further affects what is called the «imaginary index of refraction» at different wavelengths — which no doubt plays an important role in determining the associated albedo and greenhouse effect.