Science news articles about 'satellite galaxies'
Time for a new theory of gravitation? Satellite galaxies challenge Newtonian model
The high speed of stars and apparent presence of 'dark matter' in the satellite galaxies that orbit our Milky Way Galaxy presents a direct challenge to Newton's theory of gravitation, according to ...Time For A New Theory Of Gravitation? Satellite Galaxies Challenge Newtonian Model
The high speed of stars and apparent presence of 'dark matter' in the satellite galaxies that orbit our Milky Way Galaxy presents a direct challenge to Newton's theory of gravitation, according to ...Astronomers discover most dark matter-dominated galaxy in universe
... her colleague Josh Simon at the California Institute of Technology, has observed about half of the dwarf satellite galaxies that orbit the Milky Way. These objects are so faint and contain so few ...Swift makes best-ever ultraviolet portrait of Andromeda Galaxy
... studies have shown that tides raised by the many small satellite galaxies in orbit around M31 help ... conditions and relate them to conditions in the distant galaxies where we see gamma-ray bursts ...NASA's Fermi telescope detects gamma-ray from 'star factories' in other galaxies
... broad glow that roughly follows the plane of our galaxy. This diffuse gamma-ray emission results ... Dorado, the LMC is the largest of several small satellite galaxies that orbit our own. More stars form ...The behemoth has a thick belt
... -years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies. "Previous estimates gave an initial mass of 40 times the mass of the Sun to WOH G64. But this ...XMM-Newton measures speedy spin of rare celestial object
... are just five so-called Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters (SGRs) known, four in the Milky Way and one in our satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud. Each is between 10 and 30 ...Study plunges standard theory of cosmology into crisis
... forming some sort of a disc in the sky. The research team has also been able to show that most of these satellite galaxies rotate in the same direction around the Milky Way – like the planets revolve ...Do satellite galaxies point to modified gravity?
Dwarfs don't seem to contain dark matterIs the Milky Way doomed to be destroyed by galactic bombardment? Probably not, study says
... The finding solves two mysteries: the likely fate of the Milky Way at the hands of its satellite galaxies -- the most massive of which are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds -- and the origin of ...ESO unveils an amazing, interactive, 360-degree panoramic view of the entire night sky
... glowing nebulae, which harbours bright, young stars, as well as the Galaxy's central bulge and its satellite galaxies. The painstaking production of this image came about as a collaboration between ...
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