There are a hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone, and there are billions of other galaxies. |
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At those rates, each galaxy could easily have formed the quasar and its black hole power source in just a few hundred million years. |
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In essence the galaxy is eclipsing the quasar, but paradoxically its gravitational lens effect brightens the light received from the latter. |
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You just don't get giant rotating disks from the accretion of small galaxy fragments. |
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The Jedi are stretched to the limit trying to keep peace and order in the galaxy. |
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A radio telescope has detected hundreds of hydrogen clouds in the gaseous halo that surrounds the disk of our galaxy. |
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When she observed the galaxy later using the radio telescope, she found that it is embedded in a huge disk of atomic hydrogen gas. |
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Smaller galaxies in galaxy clusters are systematically redshifted with respect to the larger galaxies. |
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The galaxy's hallmark is a brilliant white, bulbous core encircled by the thick dust lanes comprising the spiral structure of the galaxy. |
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In other words, a telescope must have sufficient resolving power to distinguish individual Cepheids from all the other stars in the galaxy. |
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Astronomers discovered through CGRO data that the center of our galaxy glows in gamma rays created by the annihilation of matter and antimatter. |
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Everybody wants a part of their rich deposits of Siilv metal, the most valuable resource in the known galaxy. |
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A tiny object compared with the size of galaxy blew through the funnel furiously, littering molten debris behind its wake. |
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They had no maps, no charts, no astrogation data, yet they brought the galaxy to its knees. |
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They have been traveling the galaxy for all of recorded history, and seem to have innate abilities as pilots and astrogators. |
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His tousled auburn hair almost hid his eyes, and the freckles dotted his face like the stars in the galaxy. |
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Kitt Peak observations also identified a bright tail extending from the galaxy. |
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In the wake of their travels, they have left half of the galaxy devoid of sapient life, primarily through the use of their Marauder starships. |
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Models of the planets are situated along the path, to scale with their size and the distance between them in the galaxy. |
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The craft had obviously seen a lot of the galaxy, judging from the dents, pocks, and black burns covering the hull. |
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The portrait of a galaxy could thus include information about its appearance in these other bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. |
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The new finding implies that our own galaxy is probably much bigger than textbooks say. |
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Scientists can look at stars all over the galaxy and determine the metallicity at the time they were formed. |
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The team found large hot bubbles extending above and below a disk of gas along the equator of the galaxy. |
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We live on a tiny planet in a corner of a vast galaxy starred about with infinite space. |
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Seventy percent of the stars in the galaxy are binaries, so this has huge implications for the number of solar systems that could exist. |
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Near the geographic center of the galaxy was a binary star system called Theralia. |
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More than 50 percent of the stars in the galaxy are partners in a binary system. |
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This is a long, long way from saying that this galaxy is full of planets with biospheres even remotely comparable to ours. |
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The sudden modulation brings a galaxy of woodwind delights against muted, pointed strings. |
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Setting aside the real world for a moment, let's return to a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away. |
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The camera pans across a galaxy of stars and planets, novae, and nebulae twinkling in the blackness. |
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The central region of the small galaxy NGC 1705 blazes with the light of thousands of young and old stars. |
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Within the Milky Way galaxy alone, there are over 100 billion stars, and there are an uncountable number of galaxies in the universe. |
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It transpires that in this region of our galaxy, binary and multiple star systems are more common than singletons like our Sun. |
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The lower smudge of light is from the nucleus at the centre of the Andromeda galaxy. |
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However, this technique currently can be applied reliably only for relatively nearby stars within our own galaxy. |
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In early 1845, before his telescope was completed, Rosse had resolved his first nebula, discovering it to be a spiral galaxy of stars. |
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The relationship between life as a continuous negentropic process and the zero entropy of the galaxy can be described with the following diagram. |
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That uneven tug can stretch and shear the galaxy, over time, tearing out long streamers of stars and gas. |
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By contrast, to reach our nearest galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, you'd need only twenty-five Milky Ways. |
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If accurate, this new view of galactic demography might force astronomers to rethink the fundamentals of galaxy formation. |
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Has an isolated black hole captured gas while crossing the disk of a spiral galaxy? |
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Spiral galaxies such as NGC 4414, a dusty spiral galaxy, form from fast spinning hydrogen gas. |
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He looked at the dashboard and, alarmed at the galaxy of flashing lights, realized that the car had stalled. |
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Tonight, amid a galaxy of sporting stars, curling will be back in the limelight. |
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There are a terrifically large number of planets in the galaxy and many people say that the sheer weight of numbers means that life must exist. |
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Nestled among other starburst regions within the small galaxy, nebula NGC 346 alone contains more than 2500 infant stars. |
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We utilized these starships to travel the galaxy and encounter new species, which became either one of our adversaries or one of our allies. |
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It has been used for observations ranging from galaxy structure to stellar evolution. |
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Long, long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, musical theatre and opera were bitter, resentful enemies. |
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The first image is of the impressive spiral galaxy NGC 6118, located near the celestial equator, in the constellation Serpens. |
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That herbage was found in most deserts in this part of the galaxy, and was known to some people as the Esirinus cactus. |
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But suppose that as time goes on, all the black holes in a given galaxy eventually fall into a central black hole at the galactic center. |
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Arp's evidence for galaxy formation by ejection of quasars from the centres of active galactic nuclei is extremely compelling. |
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They are more than a billion times brighter than the Sun and can outshine an entire galaxy for several weeks. |
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Whereas some folks consider brown dwarfs the duds of the galaxy, astronomers see beauty in these substellar embers. |
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Remember, our solar system is contained within the Milky Way galaxy which in turn is comprised of many other planets, suns and stars! |
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The new picture for the first time resolves faint, sunlike stars in a galaxy other than the Milky Way. |
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The discovery will lend support to the idea that almost every sunlike star in our galaxy, and probably the Universe, is accompanied by planets. |
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The role of galaxy destruction by merging, leading to a new supergalaxy, has been underappreciated until recently. |
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An international team of astronomers have provided compelling evidence that we have a supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy. |
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I like to think if the galaxy is a conscious being then it would be self aware, as I'm thinking of it as a hyperconscious being. |
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A double star cluster in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way is pictured above. |
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We know what matter looks like today because we see galaxies, galaxy clusters, and galaxy superclusters. |
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Studies of two distant galaxy clusters have found that galaxies formed relatively early in the history of the Universe. |
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Two vast cavities extend away from the super massive black hole in the cluster's central galaxy. |
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The centre of our galaxy lies within a cluster of stars in the constellation Sagittarius. |
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Integral has a large field of view, enabling it to scan our Milky Way galaxy for neutron stars and black hole activity. |
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A dense region of intergalactic gas cools to form several smaller galaxies, which merge to form a larger galaxy with a super massive black hole. |
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And in which constellation is that Great Nebula, the constellation which then gave its name to the galaxy? |
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The broadness of the emission lines is assumed to be a sign of great turbulence in the invisible gas surrounding the galaxy. |
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It all adds up to a huge mess of cosmic change, collectively called galaxy evolution. |
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There's nothing like seeing the splendour of our galaxy spread across the cosmic bowl. |
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There are reckoned to be about 400 billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. |
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There really is a big mountain out there on some planet in some solar system in some galaxy. |
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He was thinking only of the chance of individual stars within our own galaxy, the Milky Way, acting this way. |
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Conquering the galaxy involves dealing with a couple hundred billion stars at least. |
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On another note, this story takes place now, just in a different part of the galaxy. |
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Archeologists unearthed a galaxy of merry swastikas when they excavated Troy. |
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There were other great athletes in those days as well, in fact a galaxy of them. |
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To create his galaxy of impressions, Baxter watched television avidly, even backstage between stage shows. |
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Major cash problems for Australian clubs means a galaxy of internationals will want to play in Britain next season. |
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In the galaxy of first-class hams, this one most definitely deserves its spot. |
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We don't have the galaxy of players we had when we had Woosnam and Lyle, Faldo and Ballesteros. |
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Auden was the next writer to sign on, bringing in his wake a galaxy of homeless talents. |
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A whole galaxy of cool, disco artists are banding together for a fun show to remember. |
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I would like to say that he was an emperor amongst the present galaxy of saints. |
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Kalpana Chawla, her name now enshrined in the galaxy of super achievers, was a rare bird indeed. |
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Greetings from a convention of those who admire the galaxy of nameless icons! |
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Music fans flocked to hear a galaxy of international stars at a festival of global music and dance. |
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The Collisionless Boltzmann Equation defines a galaxy as a self-gravitating system of stars and particles of dark matter. |
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Chris had his committed cluster hunters searched for X-rays, the telltale signs of the incredibly hot gasses in a galaxy cluster. |
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Both the gaseousness of the companion galaxy and how recently the event took place are unusual, said the astronomers. |
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Around 1915, Shapley decentered the solar system by placing it toward the periphery of our galaxy. |
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In the 1900s American astronomer Harlow Shapley studied the distribution of globular clusters in our galaxy. |
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He also discovered the retrograde rotation of the system of globular clusters around the galaxy. |
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The oldest stars, which lie inside globular clusters that orbit our galaxy, are estimated to be at least 12 billion years old. |
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The protogalaxy probably has since coalesced into a giant elliptical galaxy, he says. |
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This is all set on a backdrop of a larger presence within the galaxy, an ancient civilization that left floating derelicts in space. |
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The desert rose, the ocean flower, and the forest queen were all that they were known as to the others of the galaxy. |
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This treasure trove of information details the daring deeds and derring-do of a galaxy of Headingley Stadium stars. |
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It was like a perfect starry night on a world in the busy middle of a great galaxy, covering their little Eden with soft radiance. |
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In a large galaxy, the black hole can reach a greater size before its surrounding gas is energized enough to stop falling in. |
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The evolution and eventual dissolution of galaxy clusters may be largely driven by collisions. |
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One of these galaxy clusters is the most distant proto-cluster ever found and the other is the most massive known galaxy cluster for its epoch. |
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At Madrid, he joined the galactico, literally a galaxy of stars. |
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In an interview with The Daily Beast, Eve opens up about her journey from London to the furthest reaches of the galaxy. |
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Pratt, of course, just exploded with Guardians of the galaxy and the upcoming lead in Jurassic World. |
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He says he has yet to experience any negative feedback from the galaxy of Whovians. |
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These smaller objects, left over from the collapses of young, very massive stars gradually merged, creating a billion solar mass black hole at the centre of the galaxy. |
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This led to the proposition that most of the mass in a galaxy was low luminosity mass of some kind, and this invisible mass was called dark matter. |
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The human race and their technologically able allies moved forth into the galaxy and dispersed, creating new worlds, and through interbreeding, new subspecies of races. |
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Just picture Princess Leia sauntering through the galaxy in one of his technology-inspired designs. |
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That smudge is the nucleus of another galaxy, at least as large as our own, and two hundred times farther from us than the Sagittarius star cloud. |
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The first is to describe planets in our galaxy in all their weirdness and wonder. |
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Andromeda galaxy is about 2.5 million light-years away, which is right next-door in a cosmic sense. |
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According to the hierarchical model of galaxy formation, the first galaxies were built out of smaller collections of matter. |
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Way out in the corners of the galaxy, there are objects so massive that they curve light into gargantuan gravitational lenses, distorting and magnifying objects behind them. |
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But if you liberate a ballroom, football field or galaxy inside your brain, you can entertain concepts of any size, from microscopic to behemoth to celestially vast. |
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That galaxy is just a little more than one degree east of Eta Piscium. |
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Along with all this, a new bird's-eye view shows, for the first time, what the Milky Way would look like to an astronomer peering our way from some faraway galaxy. |
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Xiaomi smartphones and Samsung galaxy tablets captured photos of the warplanes in action before the shots were uploaded to Weibo. |
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The minor axis is perpendicular to the plane of rotation of the galaxy. |
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The official website is now a positive galaxy of useful stuff. |
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Wales were savaged by the absence of a galaxy of their players. |
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The research and analysis ranges from providing more accurate hurricane predictions, to climate change, galaxy formation, black holes and supernovas. |
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A runaway star could bring light to both the outer and inner darkness in the galaxy. |
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Space Adventure fills the third level where visitors can meet a life size animatronic spaceman, discover the galaxy and learn all about man's adventures in space. |
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These resulted in his Photometric Researches, the first modern compilation of star magnitudes and among the first works to suggest a disk shape for the Milky Way galaxy. |
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The World Cup has arrived with its minders and stands in state, alongside the Six Nations trophy and a galaxy of Heineken Cups and domestic League trophies. |
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A galaxy of spangles and silver coins glitters across each back. |
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People forget all too readily, but Greenspan is a consultant to Pimco, the largest bond manager in this quadrant of the galaxy. |
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The image includes a companion galaxy, seen at the end of one spiral arm. |
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While it shows signs of past activity, our galaxy is pretty quiet now, but active galaxies like NGC 5548 are another matter. |
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That brings us back to the observation of a pair of black holes in the process of dismembering a star in a distant galaxy. |
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The galactic centre of our galaxy is one of Integral's prime targets. |
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Our Milky Way galaxy is gobbling up its galactic neighbor, Sagittarius, and scientists this week offered documentary proof of this continuing cosmic cannibalism. |
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If galaxy mapping is like doing a population map, the complementary study is like a demographic survey. |
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They are actually using the media around the galaxy to manipulate events and make people feel they have more power than they do. |
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The size of the central black hole is correlated to the size of its galaxy. |
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Is it possible that in some far-off galaxy as yet beyond our ken creatures very different but perhaps far superior to us in intelligence live in a civilisation of their own? |
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By the early twenty-first century, extrasolar planets have been found orbiting almost seventy solar-mass stars in the nearby region of the galaxy. |
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He will have noble, humane reasons for everything he does, and will want to invent a cure for cancer and communicate with a new life form in another galaxy. |
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You can conquer the galaxy with your best friends in a single evening. |
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The galaxy itself is turning, as shown in the example in the photograph, sort of like the spiraling froth on the top of a cup of cocoa after it's been stirred. |
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Older stars and dense dust lanes near the heart of the galaxy are red. |
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It was possibly the most important observation but it was just personal observation to sample the glory and the majesty of the galactic plain and the centre of the galaxy. |
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The discovery of planets orbiting other Sun-like stars in the galaxy is a key scientific discovery that has played a central role in the astrobiological revolution. |
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Based on their observations, Henry and his colleagues were able to backtrack the Abell 754 collision to its two constituent galaxy clusters, with one smaller than the other. |
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They cannot extend a ruler to a distant galaxy and cannot usually use triangulation like surveyors do because the distances involved are too large. |
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By recording the spectra of several distant quasars whose light pierces the Milky Way, the spacecraft revealed some 50 ultraviolet-absorbing gas clouds around our galaxy. |
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She is an astrochemist who has studied the formation and destruction of dust and molecules in regions of our galaxy where stars are known to be forming. |
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The most easily visible part of galaxy clusters, i.e. the stars in all the galaxies, make up only a small fraction of the total of what makes up the cluster. |
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Firstly, if we consider a spiral galaxy, such as our own Milky Way, or our neighbour, Andromeda, we can measure its mass by measuring how fast it spins. |
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Spock is headed to the bridge of the Enterprise where he's going to broadcast a message to the galaxy. |
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With a brand new Star Wars trilogy in the making, everyone is anxious to return to that galaxy far, far away. |
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Where else can you launch a rocket, fire a pop gun, move half a ton of granite and gaze at the galaxy, all in one day. |
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The new galaxy is a member of a class of objects called Giant Radio Galaxies. |
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Two appeared in NGC 1316, a galaxy better known as Fornax A, a strong radio galaxy near the centre of the Fornax cluster. |
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A research by the University of Utah found a supercompact, dwarf galaxy home to a supermassive black hole. |
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The TARDIS Chromakey Dome uses blue screen technology to put you at the helm of the most famous police box in the galaxy. |
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Now, however, it is firmly categorised as a barred spiral galaxy, with loosely wound arms and a relatively small central bulge. |
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Gazing through a traditional optical telescope, you'd see a galaxy 50 billion light years away from Earth as a fuzzy oval of light. |
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The 2016 Versys 1000 will be sold in raw titanium with spark black whereas the Ninja 1000 will be offered in candy lime green with galaxy silver. |
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The history of a galaxy is also encoded in the dynamics of its stars. |
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Riding along on the Lion's tail, close to the eastern border is an especially rare type of galaxy, NGC 3758, only one degree west of 92 Leonis. |
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Our galaxy, as enormous as it is, is only one of several in a small cluster of more than 20 that form part of the Local Group. |
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In our home galaxy, the Milky Way, about half of all stars have a companion and travel through space in a binary system. |
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I did not relish the idea of leaving this galaxy of adventure for a life of normaldom. |
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Then the group must locate the Swell Foop and use it to free Demon Earth on Fornax, a small foreign galaxy. |
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We did a black light search with this torch and black light and holy mackerel, honestly, it was like a galaxy. |
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Spitzer observed 10 cepheids in our own Milky Way galaxy and 80 in a nearby neighboring galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. |
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For comparison, the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy companion to the Milky Way, is 14,000 light-years wide. |
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An explosion of a massive star was detected in 1987 in our neighbouring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, just 170,000 light-years away. |
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This massive bright young star lies in our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, about 160,000 light-years from Earth. |
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That FRB passed through the plane of our galaxy and shot through the Scutum star cloud, a window in the interstellar dust. |
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Now the corresponding cosmic ripples can be spotted in the SDSS galaxy maps. |
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The globular cluster was discovered by John Herschel in 1834, but the parent dwarf galaxy was not discovered until 1938 by Harlow Shapley. |
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Scattered among the galaxy are brown dwarf stars, capable of producing energy to heat colonizing stations and power starships. |
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At first glance, the M87 galaxy appears to be one of many elliptical galaxies in the constellation of Virgo. |
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In many cases the galaxy clusters have no dominant central mass, with the intragalactic gas dispersed throughout the cluster. |
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The spiral galaxy is around 30m light years away in the constellation of Pavo, the Peacock. |
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Eventually, the duo will settle down to form one super-giant elliptical galaxy. |
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Then every now and then they get completely cannibalised by some much larger galaxy. |
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The distorted image of the galaxy is repeated several times in the foreground lensing cluster, as is typical of gravitational lenses. |
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At a distance of around 12 million light years away, Centaurus A is the closest large elliptical galaxy to our own Milky Way. |
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Barely 20' west, another elliptical galaxy, NGC 1387, occupies a spot in this crowded cooking oven full of fuzzies. |
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But today, 10 billion years later, it would have grown into a giant elliptical galaxy much more massive than the Milky Way. |
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, a city council concerned itself with irrelevancies. |
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To those spacefarers, it would be a message in a bottle sent a long, long time ago from a galaxy far, far away. |
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Astronomers detected this emission line in the Perseus galaxy cluster using both Chandra and XMM-Newton. |
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Like our own spiral galaxy, these two galaxies also have relatively large and nearby companions. |
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He discovered that the gas clouds lined up along spiral arms, indicating that we live in a spiral galaxy. |
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Along the way, National Review brought aboard a galaxy of colorful characters, some of them little known, some Dickensian and even Dostoyevskian. |
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Studies show that the jets are in fact composed of stars and could well be the shattered remains of a cannibalised dwarf galaxy. |
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Astronomers think the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy will give the Milky Way more than 100,000,000 stars. |
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As the sun moves in its path through the galaxy, it will not always be immersed in the tenuous intercloud region of the interstellar medium. |
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In the same diagram a compact galaxy, 3C 371, and a Seyfert, 3C 120, lie very close to the Lacertids. |
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It is now widely accepted that the center of nearly every galaxy, not just active ones, contains a supermassive black hole. |
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Binary stars are ubiquitous in the galaxy, but astronomers don't fully understand how they form. |
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Water has been detected in interstellar clouds within our galaxy, the Milky Way. |
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Gamma ray bursts are fairly rare, occurring only a few times in a given galaxy per million years. |
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Astrometric results are the basis used to calculate the distribution of speculated dark matter in the galaxy. |
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Our solar system orbits within the Milky Way, a barred spiral galaxy that is a prominent member of the Local Group of galaxies. |
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Both the Milky Way and one of our nearest galaxy neighbors, the Andromeda Galaxy, are spiral galaxies. |
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An active galaxy is a formation that emits a significant amount of its energy from a source other than its stars, dust and gas. |
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A radio galaxy is an active galaxy that is very luminous in the radio portion of the spectrum, and is emitting immense plumes or lobes of gas. |
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Blast off for the rockingest rock in the galaxy, where it's always lunchtime and you rule! |
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A few billion years of local perturbations add up to a shitton more effect than can be mounted against the overall galaxy. |
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That's the standard scenario for galaxy formation, and now astronomers have caught on-camera evidence of the process. |
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Further south-east, on the border with the constellation Antlia, the spiral galaxy NGC 3393 contains a pair of super-massive black holes. |
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The action, one-liners, buddy bonding and retro coolness takes this to a new galaxy. |
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In 2013 and 2014 the international team carried out the most extensive monitoring campaign of an active galaxy ever conducted. |
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Their means of travel is by a galaxy hopper that travels in superquick time through wormholes. |
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The spiral disk of the Andromeda galaxy, the Milky Way's neighbor, is just a tiny part of a much larger entity. |
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How do which can help you find the Andromeda galaxy, above and to the left of the 'top left' star of the Square. |
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The new findings support the notion that each end of a magnetic field line within a galaxy is anchored to a dense gas cloud. |
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The exciting images from NASA's New Horizons probe finally showed us what this dwarf planet out on the very edge of our galaxy looks like. |
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It was long thought to have four main bands of stars spinning from its center, but a new model shows that two of these arms dominate the spiral galaxy. |
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As we look into the bright star clouds above the spout of Sagittarius' teapot, we are looking directly toward the nucleus, the center, of our galaxy. |
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They also confront theoretical cosmological predictions of hierarchical merging and galaxy formation in the scenario of the cold dark matter theory. |
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For instance, light from an extremely distant galaxy, recorded by an Earth-orbiting telescope as infrared radiation, was originally emitted by the galaxy as ultraviolet light. |
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Our time, not some other dimension, not some greeting card galaxy, but the real hurly burly of our lives, of every culture, of all of our ambitions and failings. |
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The fluid beauty of Lights of Laniakea hearkens to its inspiration, a recently mapped supercluster in space containing our galaxy, dubbed Laniakea by astronomers. |
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The filament connects two clusters of galaxies that, along with a third cluster, will smash together and give rise to one of the largest galaxy superclusters in the universe. |
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Astronomers have calculated the odds that, sometime during the next 50 years, a supernova occurring in our home galaxy will be visible from Earth. |
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Proposals on a growing list range from decaying superheavy particles in this galaxy to colliding cosmic strings of energy stretching across all of space. |
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Its orbit carries it down through the plane of our galaxy from the ancient halo of stars that encircle the Milky Way, and will eventually slingshot back to the galactic halo. |
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These loop clusters look geometrically like the clusters of galaxies, particularly the Abell clusters, which are small and dense as galaxy clusters go. |
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Our galaxy contains more than 1,000 of these open clusters, which potentially can present the physical conditions for harboring many more of these giant planets. |
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Intriguingly, the gravitational interaction of NGC 6872 and IC 4970 may have done the opposite, spawning what may develop into a new small galaxy. |
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Tran and her team were studying star formation in two distant galaxy clusters, including IRC 0218, when they stumbled upon the gravitational lens. |
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Then there's a galaxy of has-beens from the worlds of stage and screen. |
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Slightly larger dwarf spheroidals are known to be the single most common kind of galaxy in rich clusters like that seen past the constellation Virgo. |
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Early galactographers had defined it as that part of the galaxy which lay between the eastern and southern kingdoms, and the edge of the island-universe. |
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In 964, the Andromeda Galaxy, the largest galaxy in the Local Group, was discovered by the Persian astronomer Azophi and first described in his Book of Fixed Stars. |
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Measurements of the radial velocity and proper motion of stars allows astronomers to plot the movement of these systems through the Milky Way galaxy. |
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A spiral galaxy is organized into a flat, rotating disk, usually with a prominent bulge or bar at the center, and trailing bright arms that spiral outward. |
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, I wrote a sickfic. |
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There's nothing to do but attempt the Hail Mary pass of shipping vast loads of humanity spacewards in the hope of finding more hospitable climes elsewhere in the galaxy. |
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Arrest this man for his speakable crimes against the galaxy. |
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And to his amazement he finds himself back in the company of his old sparring partner River Song as he joins her squad for a warp speed chase across the galaxy. |
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Astrophysicist Marco Ajello of Stanford and his colleagues used the orbiting Fermi Large Area Telescope to study distant blazars, a type of bright, active galaxy. |
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Also in the southern sky is the Great Square of Pegasus, How which can help you find the Andromeda galaxy, above and to the left of the 'top left' star of the Square. |
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Also in the southern sky is the Great Square of Pegasus, which can help you find How the Andromeda galaxy, above and to the left of the 'top left' star of the Square. |
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Also in the southern sky is the Great Square of Pegasus, which can help you find the Andromeda galaxy, above and to the left of the 'top left' star of the Square. |
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Also in the southern sky is How the Great Square of Pegasus, which can help you find the Andromeda galaxy, above and to the left of the 'top left' star of the Square. |
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This hot gas, which is the heftiest component of the galaxy clusters aside from unseen dark matter, glows brightly in X-ray light detected by Chandra. |
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This object is an active giant radio galaxy with a super-massive black hole, known as Fornax A, which has been feeding on a remnant it cannibalised. |
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Just below the center of the image is the blue, twisted form of galaxy NGC 2936, one of the two interacting galaxies that form Arp 142 in the constellation of Hydra. |
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Dorothea noted the star was close to the galaxy NGC 3147, but was absent from a plate of the same region exposed in 1895 as well as from the Greenwich Astrophotographic Chart. |
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This research will concentrate on the astrophysically interesting question of how galaxy formation would be affected by different levels of vacuum energy. |
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It wasn't until Harlow Shapley investigated certain clusters that surround our galaxy that it was determined the sun is located some 30,000 light years away from the center. |
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Messier 87 in Virgo is a good example of a bright elliptical galaxy. |
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A fully developed elliptical galaxy is a gas-deficient gathering of ancient stars theorized to develop from the inside out, with a compact core marking its beginnings. |
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The giant elliptical galaxy M87, in contrast, holds thousands. |
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About 640,000 light-years from Earth in the direction of the constellation Canes Venatici, the galaxy is one of the most remote Milky Way satellites ever found. |
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Astronomers, using a new type of telescope made by stitching together telephoto lenses, recently discovered seven celestial surprises while probing a nearby spiral galaxy. |
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Sloan and his colleagues observed dust forming around the carbon star MAG 29, located 280,000 light years away in a smaller nearby galaxy called the Sculptor Dwarf. |
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By measuring the period of a Cepheid and its apparent brightness, astronomers can deduce the distance to the star and to the galaxy in which it resides. |
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Unlike grand design spiral galaxies, which contain perfectly distinct spiral arms, a flocculent spiral galaxy is not as well-defined and whose spiral arms appear disjointed. |
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