Sentences with phrase «yet faint galaxies»
Very large yet faint galaxies have been found where no one would have expected them — in the middle of a giant galaxy cluster.
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«This mass range gets interesting, because these «ultra-faint» dwarf galaxies are so faint that we do not yet have a complete observational census of how many exist around the Milky Way.
To take a better galactic census, a team led by astronomer Rodrigo Ibata of the Strasbourg Observatory in France took the most detailed images yet of the space around Andromeda, exposing swarms of faint stars distributed near the galaxy.
At the absolute magnitude of -0.8 in the optical waveband, it may well be the faintest satellite galaxy yet found.
Some of these galaxies formed just 600 million years after the Big Bang and are fainter than any other galaxy yet uncovered by Hubble.
Although impressive, the number of galaxies found at this early epoch is not the team's only remarkable breakthrough, as Johan Richard from the Observatoire de Lyon, France, points out, «The faintest galaxies detected in these Hubble observations are fainter than any other yet uncovered in the deepest Hubble observations.»