quasars.
quasars.
blue those are the brightest stars
A universe is a very big realm of darkness with galaxies in it. and there are billions of galaxies in the universe! One of those galaxies is our solar system, and in that solar system is our planet. There probably is even more then just one univserse. O_o Well... Galaxies are within the universe and a universe is defintly bigger then a galaxy
neptune is the farthest planet and mercury is closet planet
A universe is a very big realm of darkness with galaxies in it. and there are billions of galaxies in the universe! One of those galaxies is our solar system, and in that solar system is our planet. There probably is even more then just one univserse. O_o Well... Galaxies are within the universe and a universe is defintly bigger then a galaxy
It is a large galaxy, which is relatively near-by. There are galaxies nearer to us, like the two Magellan Clouds; but those are mini-galaxies.
A galaxy is made up of hundreds of billions of stars (suns). The light from the galaxies comes mainly from those stars.However, in early galaxies, a much larger amount of energy was released from the quasar - currently believed to be the gigantic black hole in the center of galaxies.
Those are the spiral galaxies. In our "immediate neighborhood" (part of our Local Group), we have M31, a.k.a. the Andromeda Galaxy.
... expanding. The redshift is attributed to the Doppler effect, meaning that those galaxies are receding, or getting away, from us.
The vast distances involved means that the light we see left those galaxies a long time ago.
The vast distances involved means that the light we see left those galaxies a long time ago.
A light year is the distance light travels in a year. That is roughly 6,000,000,000,000 miles (six trillion miles). Thus such a unit is used only to measure the largest distances, those between stars and galaxies.