Montag, 10. November 2008

Ancient galaxies pose for the camera

Ancient galaxies pose for the camera: "

Fetching ultraviolet snap of deep, deep space

The European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere (aka ESO, or European Southern Observatory) has released a rather fetching snap of distant galaxies posing in the U-band - the boundary between visible light and ultraviolet - which shows some clusters of stars so old that they're seen 'as they were when the universe was only two billion years old'.…

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(Via The Register.)