Sentences with phrase «whole galaxies in the universe»

From there, astronomers learned that there were whole galaxies in the universe separate from the Milky Way.

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The atoms and molecules from which life has been fashioned are universal; life itself exists in myriad forms on this planet and may exist on myriad other planets in this galaxy and in countless others, but a conscious mind capable of thinking and feeling is unique on Earth and may be unmatched in the whole of the universe.
We may be but one among many living things on a small planet swimming in the endless spaces of a vast galaxy within an almost infinite cosmos, yet surely we are among the most astonishing manifestations of evolution in the whole of the universe.
There are many, many galaxies just like ours... To think that our one little earth around this one little star just in this one little place of this one little galaxy in the whole universe is the only one to have life, that would make us special.
«It occurred to me there could be a whole universe up there of hidden galaxies, just a little dimmer than those we can detect from Earth,» says Disney, an emeritus professor at Cardiff University in Wales.
A related stretching and reddening of light seen in nearly every galaxy indicates that the whole universe is expanding.
Such supernovae belong to the most energetic and brightest phenomena in the universe and can outshine a whole galaxy for weeks.
In a universe of this sort, each observer sees things as if he were at the center of the spinning, with the galaxies — indeed, the whole universe — rotating about him.
We can't work out why matter dominates the universe — unless whole antimatter stars and galaxies exist in far - off cosmic climes.
Cosmologists typically focus on the large - scale properties of the universe as a whole, such as galaxies and intergalactic medium; while astrophysicists are more interested in testing physical theories of small - to medium - sized objects, such as stars, supernovae and interstellar medium.
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