Sentences with phrase «vast galactic structures»

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Yet Centaurus A is the third documented example, behind the Milky Way and Andromeda, of a «vast polar structure» in which satellite dwarves co-rotate around a central galactic mass in what Pawlowski calls «preferentially oriented alignment.»

The existence of the enormous spiral galaxies will require astronomers to develop new theories allowing for the development of the vast structures, as no such provision exists for super spirals in the current galactic evolutionary model.

Detection of the spiral's dust in a bi-symmetric structure provides strong evidence of its position deep inside the giant elliptical host while the vast amounts of radio, visual, and x-ray emissions are a result of the energy released by this continuing galactic merger (or «consumption» of a satellite galaxy).