Sentences with phrase «similar dwarf galaxies»

The discovery is a notable one because scientists are questioning how many similar dwarf galaxies have gone unnoticed thus far.

Most similar dwarf galaxies show no clear evidence of r - process elements.

The origin of a fast radio burst in this type of dwarf galaxy suggests a connection to other energetic events that occur in similar dwarf galaxies, said co-author and UC Berkeley astronomer Casey Law, who led development of the data - acquisition system and created the analysis software to search for rapid, one - off bursts.

Not exact matches

Known as an ultra-compact dwarf, this type of system has up to a billion stars and can be similar in mass to a galaxy, but it is compact and looks more like a star cluster.

Using a similar infrared - search technique, they spotted the remains of the Canis Major dwarf galaxy wrapped around the Milky Way.

Although similar surveys have been attempted with the Andromeda galaxy, our galaxy's nearest neighbor, «we can not yet study its dwarf galaxy companions to the same level of detail,» he says.

Normal globulars are marked in blue and globulars showing similar properties to dwarf galaxies are in green.

There have been similar claims for an extensive plane of dwarf galaxies about our own Milky Way Galaxy, with some claiming that the existence of such strange structures points to a failing in our understanding of the fundamental nature of the Universe.

However, as it is much brighter than typical dwarf spheroids, Sidney van dan Bergh has recently introduced the term «Spheroidal Galaxy» for this and similar galaxies, including Local Group members NGC 147 and NGC 185.

These events occur disproportionately often in dwarf irregular galaxies, which are thought to be similar to some of the earliest galaxies that populated the universe.

Also, confirmation that these low - mass objects are ubiquitous around larger galaxies could help solve the mystery of why certain young stars, known as G - dwarf stars, are chemically similar to ones that evolved billions of years ago.

A hunt for merging dwarf galaxies has yielded an intriguing result: 180 million light - years away, a galaxy very similar to the Milky Way — with two dwarf - galaxy satellites just like our own Magellanic clouds.

«Most of the dwarf galaxy candidates that my colleagues and I observed around Centaurus A are arranged this way, and it's a similar case with at least half of them around Andromeda.»