Sentences with phrase «very young galaxies»

«They are simply very young galaxies,» explains Mancuso.

«We checked the age, estimated by observation, of some outliers in the GMS, and indeed they are always very young galaxies.»

Given this and other recent finds, astronomers either have been phenomenally lucky — or, more likely, they have underestimated substantially the number of small, very young galaxies in the early Universe.

Astronomers have found a very young galaxy that produces thousands of stars a year — hundreds of times more than our own Milky Way.

One galaxy called «I Zwicky 18» was recently discovered to be a very young galaxy that began forming stars only 500 million years ago.

Not exact matches

Using the Very Large Array of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the US, the team observed radio emission from hydrogen in a distant galaxy and found that it would have contained billions of young, massive stars surrounded by clouds of hydrogen gas.

«What our observations of galaxies in the early universe tells us is these very early young galaxies at the dawn of the universe and their growing baby black holes already had some deep fundamental connection between them,» Schawinski said.

The study, published online today in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, describes how the researchers used the powerful MOSFIRE instrument on the W. M. Keck Observatory's 10 - meter telescope in Hawaii to peer into a time when the universe was still very young and see what the galaxy looked like only 670 million years after the big bang.

But around the same time studies of very distant galaxies, which we see as they were when the Universe was very young, were setting constraints on the amount of baryonic matter in the Universe (New Scientist, Science, 30 April).

The light from these galaxies took over 12 billion years to reach the telescope, allowing the astronomers to look back in time when the universe was still very young.

Imagine, he says, a quasar — a very luminous and very remote young galaxy.

[4] Very little is known about the origin and characteristics of the magnetic fields that were present in our galaxy when it was young, so it is unclear whether they have grown stronger over time, or decayed.

More than that, further validation could arrive very soon: «Out theory in fact implies that outlier galaxies, which are young and have very high star formation rates, are still rich in gas, and this will allow us to study them in depth by using the ALMA interferometer.»

In theory, very distant (and therefore young) galaxies should have weaker magnetic fields than galaxies which are around today.

Wang adds, «There are also a huge number of young, massive stars as well as low - mass stars near these SMBHs, so it's very crowded in the downtown area of the galaxy.

M82 (left) is a very famous example of a starburst galaxy - it contains a lot of young, bright stars probably because a close encounter with its more massive neighbour M81 has triggered a lot of new star formation.

The inset image of the galaxy is blue, suggesting very young stars.

Astronomers now have very strong evidence that the peculiar colors of early galaxies seen in the Spitzer images originate from a very rapid formation of massive, young stars, which interacted with the primordial gas in these galaxies.

On June 16, 2010, the Hubble Heritage Project released a very detailed, composite image of the dark lanes of dust crisscrossing the giant elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Taken on July 10, 2010 with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3, the panchromatic image of ultraviolet through near - infrared wavelengths shows new details such as bluish clusters of young massive stars and reddish gas nebulae undergoing star birth normally obscured by dust.