Friday, March 30, 2012

VISTA View Is Chock Full Of Galaxies

VISTA View Is Chock Full Of Galaxies:

Mosaic of infrared images from ESO's UltraVISTA survey reveal over 200,000 distant galaxies. (ESO/UltraVISTA team. Acknowledgement: TERAPIX/CNRS/INSU/CASU.)
See all those tiny points of light in this image? Most of them aren’t stars; they’re entire galaxies, seen by the European Southern Observatory’s VISTA survey telescope located at the Paranal Observatory in Chile.
This is a combination of over 6000 images taken with a total exposure time of 55 hours, and is the widest deep view of the sky ever taken in infrared light.


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