«Even though the Large Magellanic Cloud is one of our nearest galactic companions, we expect it should share some uncanny chemical similarity with distant,
young galaxies from the early universe,» said Marta Sewiło, an astronomer with NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and lead author on a paper appearing in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Not exact matches
«Beware of the dark side,» Yoda warned
young Luke Skywalker, and apparently the advice holds even in a
galaxy far, far away
from the Star Wars universe.
Instead, the bursts could come
from a
young neutron star orbiting the dwarf
galaxy's dominant black hole, which probably has between 10,000 and 1 million times the mass of the sun, he says.
YOUTHFUL runaways are nothing new — even in space, where a brush with a black hole can eject
young stars
from the
galaxy.
But new observations
from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have revealed ancient stars mingled with the
young ones, proving the
galaxy as a whole is in fact as old as its neighbors.
Radiation
from young stars, as well as
from gas spiralling into black holes at the
galaxies» cores, heats up dust, making the
galaxies glow brightly in the infrared.
Astronomers have observed
young stars trailing
from a
galaxy; the stars would have formed
from gas newly - stripped
from the
galaxy.
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.
Note that regions of Milky Way are blue
from bursts of star formation, while the
young, dead
galaxy is yellow, signifying an older star population and no new star birth.
The Antennae
galaxies, named for their insectlike appearance (left,
from ground - based telescope) are two merging spiral
galaxies that have spawned over 1000
young star clusters visible as bright blue spots
from t
It is primarily used to study infrared rays — slightly longer than visible light —
from young stars and distant
galaxies.
This discovery shows that
galaxies, like people, are influenced by their environment
from a
young age.
Young stars in the
galaxies shed dust that blocked visible light
from escaping into space.
That's because a compact source may be compact, not because it's
young, but because gas within the
galaxy is dense enough to prevent the jets
from extending far
from the central black hole; i.e. it remains compact despite it's age.
Over the last few billion years, a mysterious kind of «galactic warming» has caused many
galaxies to change
from a lively place where new stars formed every now and then to a quiet place devoid of fresh
young stars.
The new findings suggest that many
young stars, our sun included, can migrate
from one part of the
galaxy to another.
Other so - called hypervelocity stars are thought to have been boosted to their high speeds by close encounters with our
galaxy's supermassive black hole (see Hypervelocity stars: Catch them while you can), but this star is too
young to have travelled all the way
from the centre of the Milky Way.
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.
The researchers mapped thousands of star clusters in the attractive barred spiral
galaxy M83 (shown), 15 million light - years
from Earth, finding that the percentage of
young stars in clusters declines
from the urban core to the suburbs: Four thousand light - years
from M83's center, 19 % of
young stars belong to clusters, whereas 13,000 light - years out, just 7 % do.
Neal Evans, an astronomy professor at the University of Texas at Austin, credits the researchers for broadening the observational window
from the somewhat anomalous luminous events to include run - of - the - mill
galaxies in the fairly
young universe.
These extremely
young, extremely distant
galaxies blast out as much light as the entire Milky Way, all
from a core that is a millionth the Milky Way's diameter.
The team compared the positions of these
galaxies with the location of a cluster of
young galaxies 11.5 billion light - years
from Earth in SSA22 which had been studied in visible light by the Subaru Telescope, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ).
Earlier this year, Preston and his colleagues argued that many of the metal - poor stars they have discovered are rather
young and came
from a
galaxy that collided with the Milky Way (Astronomical Journal, vol 108, p 538).
STScI / NASA press releases: Hubble Makes the First Precise Distance Measurement to an Ancient Globular Star Cluster Hubble Unmasks Ghost
Galaxies Deepest View of Space Yields
Young Stars in Andromeda Halo Hubble Identifies Source of Ultraviolet Light in an Old Galaxy ESA press releases: Hubble Unmasks Ghost
Galaxies Four Unusual Views of the Andromeda Galaxy Public speaking: On the Trail of the Missing
Galaxies High - Level Science Products
from Large and Treasury Programs: GO - 9453: The Age of the Andromeda Halo (126 orbits) GO - 10265: The Formation History of Andromeda (107 orbits) GO - 10816: The Formation History of Andromeda's Extended Metal - Poor Halo (128 orbits) GO - 11664 / 12666: The WFC3 Galactic Bulge Treasury Program: Populations, Formation History and Planets (56 orbits) GO - 12549: The Formation History of the Ultra-Faint Dwarf
Galaxies (113 orbits)
A clash among members of a famous
galaxy quintet reveals an assortment of stars across a wide color range,
from young, blue stars to aging, red stars
The
young stars and early
galaxies were hot enough to strip electrons
from the neutral gases.
But dwarf irregular
galaxies are likely to have formed
from lightweight hydrogen and helium that remain pristine
from when the universe was
young.
«It appears that we have captured this
galaxy cluster at a critical stage just as it has shifted
from a loose collection of
galaxies (protoclusters) into a
young, but fully formed
galaxy cluster,» David Elbaz
from CEA and the study's co-author, said in the statement.
They might also determine if star formation processes in the bulge billions of years ago were different
from what's seen in the
younger disk of our
galaxy.
Hydrogen emission
from EGSY8p7 may indicate it is the first known example of an early generation of
young galaxies emitting unusually strong radiation.
Black holes form in the
young Universe and, over the next 13 billion years or so, accrete enormous amounts of matter
from the surrounding
galaxy.
This sharpest - ever image, taken in January 2005 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA / ESAHubble Space Telescope, illustrates a spiral
galaxy's grand design,
from its curving spiral arms, where
young stars reside, to its yellowish central core, a home of older stars (Credit: NASA, ESA, S. Beckwith (STScI), and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)-RRB-
A new study to be published in Astrophysical Journal letters on Oct. 15, lead by John Silverman at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe, studied carbon monoxide (CO) gas content in seven starburst
galaxies far away
from when the Universe was a
young four billion years old.
A
young star is speeding away
from the Milky Way so fast that astronomers have been puzzled by where it came
from; based on its
young age it has traveled too far to have come
from our
galaxy.
The Prize: A video - conference with Mirjana Povic,
young astronomer who studies the properties of normal and active
galaxies,
from Institute of Astrophysics of Andalucia (IAA), The Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Department of Extragalactic Astronomy, Granada, Spain
The VLA has been used by more than 2200 researchers and has made important discoveries in nearly every astronomical specialty,
from studies of the Sun and planets within the Solar System to
young galaxies and quasars billions of light - years away.
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.
The
galaxy, called NGC 1569, sparkles with the light
from millions of newly formed
young stars.
A
younger man in your 30s women missesmae and lui calibre dating websites stop
galaxy apps
from.
This time around in a
galaxy far, far away,
young pilot - wannabe Han (Alden Ehrenreich) is on the lookout for hyperfuel coaxium in order to repay some debts and make a quick buck, so he can return to the planet of Correlia and save his girlfriend Qi» ra (Emilia Clarke)
from a reign of terror.
Favors are called in
from across the
galaxy as stars including Randy Quaid, John Cleese, Alec Baldwin, Luis Guzman, Peter Boyle, Burt
Young, Miguel A. Nunez, Jr. and even Pam Grier show up for cameo appearances.
Certainly, the script for Meatballs 2 by first - timer Bruce Singer (The Killing Time, Splash Too) does take things into different directions, but those directions look like they are crammed in
from wildly different movies, if not
galaxies if you look at the inclusion of an alien who pretends to be one of the
young campers.
An alien touring the
galaxy breaks away
from her group and meets two
young inhabitants of the most dangerous place in the universe: the London suburb of Croydon.
In Yondu's case, this meant everything
from smuggling stuff across the
galaxy, being a space pirate and kidnapping a
young Peter Quill
from Earth.
The story of Emily Prime, an innocent child contacted by her clone descendant some 227 years in the future
from a
galaxy on the brink of Armageddon, is a fantastically bittersweet one, with this
young girl bombarded by all manner of surreal and disturbing details of a future life she couldn't possibly comprehend.
In order to hack into, what else, a giant battleship, the two
young recruits are first dispatched to a nearby planet with a lavish casino run by rich arms dealers — who, it turns out, profit
from supplying weapons to both sides of the
galaxy's seemingly eternal good - versus - evil conflict.
Billy Mitchell's removal
from the Twin
Galaxies leaderboards was the outcome of a multiple - month long investigation into a dispute made by Jeremy
Young over Mitchell's Donkey Kong score of 1,068,800 points.
Astronomers have produced one of the largest 3D maps of the
young universe, where they pinpoint 4,000 early
galaxies from the ancient past — many of which may resemble the Milky Way in its infancy.
The Star Wars franchise, in part based in Joseph Campbell's mythology and the hero's journey, maintains this theme in a film that highlights the story of a
young woman's journey to free herself, find her father, and save the
galaxy from evil atrocities.