Sentences with phrase «tiny galaxies known»

The researchers focused on tiny galaxies known as «green pea» galaxies due to their compact size.

My opinion is that the cleanest sites are the teeniest, tiniest galaxies we know about — dwarf galaxies.

Not exact matches

There are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy, each with planets, that large of a number even if a tiny fraction had an atmosphere and even if a fraction of them had water (as we know it is required, but life may not require it on other planets) it would be amazing if there wasn't a carbon based lifeform somewhere else in our galaxy, let alone in the universe with billions of galaxies each with billions of stars and trillions of planets.

While a typical galaxy contains billions of stars, a number of tiny galaxies have been found in recent years that do not fit the classic picture and instead resemble the groups of stars known as star clusters.

So far, all known lenses have either been enormous — millions of times the mass of the sun, like an entire galaxy — or relatively tiny, like a single planet.

The distortions are tiny, but starting in 2000, astronomers managed to detect the effect, which is known as cosmological weak lensing, in surveys of thousands of galaxies.

The central region has been given the name «Spiderweb» though it was previously known as MRC 1138 - 262, because it seems to consist of tiny galaxies trapped by gravity, rather like flies in a spider's web.