Sentences with phrase «shape of our galaxy much»
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In the 1970s, astronomers Vera Rubin and Kent Ford used the same basic arguments to show, in much more convincing detail, that spiral galaxies appear to keep their shapes because of the gravitational glue from nearby dark matter.
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A new computer re-enactment of billions of years of galactic evolution suggests that the Milky Way owes much of its current shape to interactions with a nearby dwarf galaxy.
From Earth, MCG -6-30-15 doesn'tlook like much: It's a lenticular galaxy, a lens - shaped blob of starswithout the photogenic spiral arms that typify our Milky Way galaxy.