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Enormous dwarf satellite galaxy of Milky Way discovered
27 Nov 2018 14:28 GMT
… of the MW dwarf satellites in Galactocentric coordinates. The position of … Way is known to be orbited by dozens of smaller, … enormous, faint dwarf galaxy orbiting the Milky Way, which … analyze a new dwarf satellite galaxy orbiting the Milky Way. The …
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Preferential occurrence of fast radio bursts in massive star-forming galaxies
06 Nov 2024 16:47 GMT
… mission description and initial on-orbit performance. Astron. J. 140 … catalogs, host associations, and galactocentric offsets. Astrophys. J. 940 … et al. Milky Way satellite census. I. The observational … function for Milky Way satellites in DES Y3 and …
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Star Movements Have 'Deep Repercussions' for Understanding of Milky Way
29 Jan 2024 14:19 GMT
… 2019 gathered by the Gaia satellite showed that up to 81 … far reaches of the galaxy.
Galactocentric XY-plane map of the … by the number of stars.
Galactocentric XY-plane map of the …
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Globular cluster VVV CL002 is falling down to the galactic center, study finds
03 Jan 2024 12:48 GMT
… collections of tightly bound stars orbiting galaxies. Astronomers perceive them … (VVV) survey. With a galactocentric distance of approximately 1,300 … CL002 has a retrograde orbital configuration of relatively high … is tighter than the orbits of all other known …
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Study inspects the ultra-thin galaxy UGC 11859
26 Jul 2023 14:01 GMT
… scale height with increasing galactocentric radius, which suggests the … detected a possible small satellite galaxy beyond the … angular distance. This faint satellite received designation GTC-1 … , Warps, Truncations, and Satellite: The Ultra-thin Galaxy UGC …
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Open cluster Berkeley 6 investigated in detail
05 Jul 2023 13:59 GMT
Using ESA's Gaia satellite, Turkish astronomers from the Istanbul … compatible within the errors. The galactocentric distance for the cluster was …
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Researchers reveal a wobbly and flared Milky Way disk based on LAMOST-gaia data
30 Sep 2021 12:50 GMT
… in the spatial range of Galactocentric radius of 5–15 kpc … increased obviously with the increasing galactocentric radius, leading to a flaring … external perturbers (such as a satellite galaxy). The mechanism behind the …
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Galactic panspermia: How far could life spread naturally in a galaxy like the Milky Way?
27 Sep 2021 11:45 GMT
… time, and it's orbited by several spherical galaxies.
The … while median habitability increases with galactocentric radius, while the probability for …
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Cold planets exist throughout our Galaxy, even in the Galactic bulge
02 Sep 2021 10:08 GMT
… center. Instead, cold planets orbiting far from their stars seem … dependence of planet frequency on Galactocentric distance"
Related Links … NASA's Transiting Exoplanets Satellite Survey (TESS) is laying … ;s pattern of planetary orbits and sizes is so …
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Cold planets exist throughout the galaxy, even in the galactic bulge
30 Aug 2021 12:56 GMT
… galactic center. Instead, cold planets orbiting far from their stars seem … Dependence of Planet Frequency on Galactocentric Distance, The Astrophysical Journal Letters …