NGC 3109
Somewhere off in the far reaches of Hydra about 4.3 million light years away is a local subgroup of galaxies and Canada Goose Online a small, barred spiral that just seems to be quietly minding its own business. Or is it? might not look like much at first, but this little official canada goose outlet island universe is really turning the tides
First discovered by John Herschel on March 24, 1835 while in South Africa, was first classed as an irregular galaxy the dominating member of a small group of dwarf galaxies believed to be Local Group Member candidates a determination which isn’t easy to make. “The Local Group dwarf galaxies Canada Goose Outlet offer a unique window to the detailed properties of the most common type of galaxy in the Universe.” says Mario L. Mateo, “Our understanding of these galaxies has grown impressively in the past decade, but Canada Goose Jackets fundamental puzzles remain that will keep the Local Group at the forefront of canada goose uk outlet galaxy evolution studies for some time.”
What makes and its little band of followers so interesting? Well, chances are it may not be a member of our Local Group at all, but the nearest of the outsiders. “The small Antlia Sextans clustering of galaxies is canadian goose jacket located at goose outlet canada a distance of only 1.36 Mpc from the Sun canada goose outlet nyc and 1.72 Mpc from the adopted barycenter of the Local Group. The latter value is significantly greater than the radius of the zero velocity surface of the Local Group that, for an assumed age canada goose outlet parka of 14 Gyr, has R_0=1.18+/ 0.15 Mpc.” says Sidney Van den Bergh, “This, together with the observation that the members of the Ant Sex group have a mean redshift of 114+/ 12 km s^ 1 relative to the centroid of the Local Group, suggests that the Antlia Sextans group is not bound to our Local Group and that it is expanding with the Hubble flow. If this conclusion is correct, then Antlia Sextans may be canada goose outlet new york city the nearest external clustering of galaxies.”
So, if can hold those kind of secrets What other kinds of secrets can it keep to itself? Try a tiny tidally interacting elliptical galaxy discovered in 1999 by Alan Whiting, George Hau and Mike Irwin. cheap canada goose It’s called the Antlia dwarf and it was found to be just beyond the zero velocity surface of the Local Group. “These data increase the number of certain (or probable) Local Group members to 36. The spatial distribution of these galaxies supports Hubble’s claim that the Local Group “is isolated in the general field.” Currently available evidence suggests that star formation continued much longer in many dwarf spheroidals than it did in the main body of the Galactic halo.” says Sidney Van den Bergh, “It is suggested that “young” globular clusters, such as Ruprecht 106, might have formed in now defunct dwarf spheroidals. Assuming SagDIG, which is canada goose outlet the most remote Local Group galaxy, to lie on, or just inside, the zero velocity surface of the Local Group yields a dynamical age >17.9+/ 2.7 Gyr. However, this value is meaningful only if the outer regions of the local Group are canada goose outlet online uk in virial equilibrium.”
Take a look at the full size image done by Ken Crawford and check out all the red and blue super giant stars and scattered HII regions where new stars are forming along with all the background galaxies. Barnes; “A substantial warp in the disk of is detected cheap canada goose canada goose outlet reviews in the H I emission image in the form of an extended low surface brightness feature. We report Canada Goose sale a positive canada goose outlet sale detection in H I of the nearby Antlia canada goose clearance sale dwarf galaxy and measure its total neutral gas mass to be 6.8+/ 1.4105 M solar. We show the warp in to lie at exactly the same radial velocity as the gas in the Antlia dwarf galaxy and speculate that Antlia disturbed the disk of during a mild encounter 1 Gyr in the past. H I data for a further eight galaxies detected in the background are presented.”
In the meantime, continues to be an on going object of study. Its many compact HII regions could be an indicator of planetary nebulae formations that are totally unlike anything we’ve seen before. “The excitation patterns of the PNe in are very different from the excitation patterns of PNe in other galaxies.” says Miriam Pena, “This would imply that the evolution of PNe depends upon the properties of their progenitor stellar populations, which vary from galaxy to galaxy. This should affect the PN luminosity function and its use as canada goose outlet store uk a distance indicator.” And ‘s unique structure has equally fascinated Sebastian Hidalgo; “Its edge on orientation (which simplifies the study of a possible halo) and the possibility that it could, in fact, be a small spiral (the smallest in the Local Group) makes its deep analysis of major relevance to https://www.foekjedillema.nl understand the properties of dwarf galaxies and the transition from dwarf irregulars to spirals.”
Many thanks to Ken Crawford for this inspiring image!
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I neither Tammy nor do I practice astrophysics, but I believe I can answer your question, sort of.
1) doesn apply, really, on such large scales. and Now works better. On cosmic scales, we should consider continuous rather than discrete and time Seen from and now our of reference well, in the picture, that exactly what those stars look like.
2) You like to know what those stars would look like, seen from and now if the event had happened in our immediate neighbourhood?
I can only guess: a lot different 4.3 million years amounts to not much more than a blink in the lifetime of a star. They are giants, though, and giants _do_ burn out canada goose factory sale canada goose outlet in usa (and change) quicker than our quite ordinary sequence Sun. Somebody else might supply the precise figures, if there is a big difference.
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