Galaxies Like Grains of Sand in New Herschel ImagePRAISE THE LORD!Written by Nancy Atkinson
Image of the distant Universe as seen by Herschel’s SPIRE instrument Credit: ESA / SPIRE and HerMES consortia
Wow. Just wow. Each of the colored dots in this new image from the Herschel telescope is a galaxy containing billions of stars. These are distant luminous infrared galaxies, and appear as they did 10–12 billion years ago, packed together like grains of sand on a beach, forming large clusters of galaxies by the force of their mutual gravity.
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Thursday, May 27, 2010
Each dot in this image is a galaxy containing billions of stars
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2 comments:
Fantastic!! Makes you feel very small, doesn't it?
very very beautiful
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