But the gegenschein is very faint, a few magnitudes fainter than the Milky Way. |
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Dave Starinshak is working on discovering and modeling star streams in the Milky Way halo. |
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And if you live under deep darkness, you can see vast star clouds of the Milky Way silently boiling up in the south. |
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The group of astronomers studied a sample of 74 red supergiant stars in the Milky Way. |
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A team of European astronomers, including several from the UK, have uncovered a super star cluster in our own Galaxy, the Milky Way. |
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Only seventy odd years ago the whole of humanity thought that the entire universe verse was just our own Milky Way. |
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A double star cluster in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way is pictured above. |
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Overhead, a glittering canopy of stars shimmers around the broad sweep of the Milky Way. |
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But the eye is dazzled and enthralled by the super-massive black hole that lives deep within the core of the Milky Way. |
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Overhead, the Milky Way washed across a star-studded sky, while out to sea a perfect crescent moon rose in honour of the Turkish flag. |
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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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There are reckoned to be about 400 billion stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. |
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But more importantly, the album flows like the Milky Way and ends up being a highly listenable achievement. |
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At 4 am on the 10th, I got up, reached up to the Milky Way and did a few chin-ups among the dazzling brilliance of the stars. |
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But others, such as the Milky Way, would still have formed a supermassive black hole despite never being a quasar. |
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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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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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He described hundreds of stars and the constellations and in the Milky Way which had never been seen or even suspected before. |
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Large spiral galaxies such as our Milky Way, which are rich in gas, would be rarities rather than the rule. |
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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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Voyaging through the Milky Way, they will stop off at a fantastic nebular region. |
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Shapley noted that nebulous objects tended to be everywhere except in the Milky Way plane. |
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The Milky Way will spiral into the central black hole in much the same way as the soap bubbles disappear down the plug hole after my bath. |
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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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Elsewhere in the Milky Way, Spitzer viewed a dark, elongated globule known as the Elephant's Trunk nebula. |
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The Milky Way has about 100 globular clusters, whereas giant elliptical galaxies are surrounded by thousands of globulars. |
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I shall move the Trenton into the unexplored quadrant behind the Milky Way and search for any remaining human warships. |
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On dark, clear nights this absorption nebula stands prominently in front of the spectacular Milky Way. |
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The water, representing the Milky Way that kept the lovers apart, ran downstage to the footlights, and into a basin. |
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One magnetar is only about a light-year from the black hole at the center of the Milky Way. |
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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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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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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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Astronomers have recently discovered that looking at dust along the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy is a bit like looking into a frothy glass of beer. |
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These nebulae, now known to be spiral galaxies like the Milky Way, were usually thought to represent the early stages of formation of structures like our Solar System. |
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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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Most stars in the Milky Way have humdrum lives, tracing slow predictable orbits around the galactic center. |
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It was only in the 1920's that the American astronomer Hubble established that some of these nebulae were indeed distant galaxies comparable in size to our own Milky Way. |
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Hubble's discovery showed that spiral nebulae are entire systems of stars in their own right, as huge and as packed with stars as our own Milky Way. |
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Under the band of Milky Way stars, we listened to crickets pulsate in the dewy grass, and watched the orange coals lick themselves with tiny flames. |
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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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The relative precision of the constellations, the path of the Milky Way, and information on the parallels and colures is therefore even more remarkable. |
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The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, two dwarf galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, are at the head of the gaseous stream. |
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This would offer an explanation for some of the free-roaming planets that have been found and it could mean that more exist across the Milky Way. |
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Their distance established spiral nebulae well beyond the edge of the Milky Way. |
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Water has been detected in interstellar clouds within our galaxy, the Milky Way. |
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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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As the Earth is located within the dusty outer arms, there are large portions of the Milky Way that are obscured from view. |
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These clusters gradually disperse, and the stars join the population of the Milky Way. |
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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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A fourth story narrates that Quetzalcoatl was born from Coatlicue, who already had four hundred children who formed the stars of the Milky Way. |
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In ancient times, it was believed that the Yellow River flowed from Heaven as a continuation of the Milky Way. |
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The 1930s brought more signal results from Jansky and Reber, early pioneers in the recognition of radio signatures from the Milky Way. |
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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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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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The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are the nearest galaxies to our Milky Way, each hundreds of thousands of light years away. |
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He suggests that these galaxies are traveling with the Magellanic clouds as part of a group that will eventually be gobbled up by the Milky Way. |
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The Milky Way sits near the edge of one such supercluster, the first to have its size mapped by astronomers. |
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Under these conditions the night sky appears grey or orangish and the Milky Way cannot be seen. |
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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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Importantly, Illustris yielded a realistic mix of spiral galaxies like the Milky Way and football-shaped elliptical galaxies. |
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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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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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It lies in a sphere above the Milky Way known as the galactic halo. |
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Kinematic studies of matter in the Milky Way and other galaxies have demonstrated that there is more mass than can be accounted for by visible matter. |
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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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The proper motions of stars near the center of our own Milky Way provide strong observational evidence that these stars are orbiting a supermassive black hole. |
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Tyson's research interests include star formation, exploding stars, dwarf galaxies and the structure of our Milky Way, and he hosts the television show Cosmos. |
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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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This animation zooms into an image of the Milky Way, shown in visible light, and superimposes a gamma-ray map of the galactic center from NASA's Fermi. |
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The scientists found to their surprise that the cluster's dilute intergalactic gas had magnetic fields of 2 to 3 microgauss, similar in strength to those in the Milky Way. |
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Appealing chapters comment on distances through space, the shape of the Milky Way, asteroids and sunspots, quasars, neutrino astronomy, and the expanding universe. |
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A recent Nasa paper suggested that the spacecraft was still in a transition zone between the sun's sphere of influence and the rest of the Milky Way. |
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In a separate set of findings, astronomers looking at the outskirts of the Milky Way found two new star streams, remnants torn from dwarf galaxies or star clusters. |
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Prior to the discovery of V1 many astronomers, including Harlow Shapley, thought spiral nebulae, such as Andromeda, were part of our Milky Way Galaxy. |
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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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At a press conference last week, researchers announced that the Hubble Space Telescope had detected such radiation from a Milky Way flare star called AU Microscopium. |
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By 1920, American astronomer Harlow Shapley had looked instead at star clusters orbiting the Milky Way and figured out that the solar system is perched off to the side. |
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Jardel used telescope observations of several of the satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way, including the Carina, Draco, Fornax, Sculptor, and Sextans dwarf galaxies. |
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The two black holes are separated by about 11,000 light years, which is about one-third the distance between our solar system and the center of the Milky Way. |
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What may be happening is that the stars are moving quite slowly because they are at the apocenter, the farthest point in their orbit about the hub of our Milky Way. |
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The apparently insignificant constellation Antlia lies just south of Hydra and borders Vela to the north, lying along the branches of the Milky Way. |
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It is unusual to find galaxies so close to the Milky Way, yet Vela offers a dozen or more NGC galaxies in the eastern extreme of the constellation, spilling over into Antlia. |
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The Coalsack Nebula is the most prominent dark nebula in the skies, easily visible to the naked eye as a prominent dark patch in the southern Milky Way. |
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Some of the matter ejected by the big bang forms galaxies, like our very own milky way. |
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Her skirt was white, fulled and gathered and looked as if the entire milky way had fallen upon it. |
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We stand, necks cricked, the milky way slashing across the sky, constellations blazing. |
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You can choose from a family bag of Kit Kat chunky miniatures, a family bar of Milky way or Nestle Double Cream Chocolate, all which have been donated by Poundland. |
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Astronomers recently placed the milky Way on the fringe of a huge supercluster. |
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For example, based on the ages of stars, we know the milky Way is about 13.2 billion years old. |
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