Sentences with phrase «young galaxies more»

Not exact matches

Such galaxies are rare, but astronomers believe that they were more common in the past, when the Universe was younger.

Aging red giant stars coexist with their more plentiful younger cousins, the smaller, white, Sun - like stars, in this crowded region of our galaxy's ancient central hub, or bulge.

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

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.

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.»

When the universe was younger, some galaxies produced a lot more radiation than galaxies do today.

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.

But if approved, K2 will be looking at a much more diverse region of sky with a wide range of astronomical and astrophysical phenomena: planets with short orbits around cooler stars (which, if in their star's habitable zone, could still harbor water); young, still - forming proto - stars, which could provide insight into star and planet formation; and supernovae and galaxy clusters.

Looking more than 12 billion years into the past, the scientists found that the young galaxy experiencing a burst of star formation was surrounded by enough cold molecular gas to make 100 billion suns.

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.

Just more evidence of the mounting excitement over the Ron Howard - directed Han Solo origin film, starring Alden Ehrenreich as a younger version of the galaxy's greatest pilot and smuggler.