... Research is ongoing, but one leading hypothesis holds that Hanny's Voorwerp is a small galaxy that acts like a large reflection nebula , showing the reflected light of a bright quasar event that was visible in the center of IC 2497 about 100,000 years ago ...
... Analyzing the space distribution of distant objects will allow insight into when and how stars, galaxies, and quasars formed, clustered, and evolved in the early universe . ...
... Farther than any known galaxy , quasar , or optical supernova , the gamma-ray burst recorded last week was clocked at redshift 8.2, making it the farthest explosion of any type yet detected . ...
... in Earth's Himalayan Mountains and then dramatically zooms out, showing the orbits of Earth's satellites , the Sun , the Solar System , the extent of humanities first radio signals , the Milky Way Galaxy , galaxies nearby , distant galaxies , and quasars ...
... But within our own galaxy are many pulsars (PSR) and pulsar wind nebulae (PWN), supernova remnants (SNR), x-ray binary stars (HXB) and micro-quasars (MQO). ...
... Black holes are thought to be the densest state of matter, and there is indirect evidence for their presence in stellar binary systems and the centers of globular clusters , galaxies , and quasars . ...
... telescope toward the constellation of the Sea Monster ( Cetus ), Fortuitously, the above image not only caught the X-ray bright star system IXO 5, visible on the upper left and likely internal to the barred spiral, but three quasars far in the distance ...
... Data from Hubble's Cosmic Origins Spectrograph were used to explore abundances of elements along sightlines to quasars that intersect the stream. ...
... Black holes are thought to be the densest state of matter , and there is indirect evidence for their presence in stellar binary systems and the centers of globular clusters , galaxies , and quasars . ...
... Amazingly, 17 years and 8 months later, it continues to operate, having made over 100,000 observations of comets, planets, stars, novae, supernovae, galaxies, and quasars. ...