Find Any Photo
Fires of Galactic Youth Artist Animation
Download full sizeView at the archive

Fires of Galactic Youth Artist Animation

This artist's animation shows a typical young galaxy, teeming with hot, newborn stars and exploding supernovas. The supernovas are seen as white flashes of light. NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer spotted three-dozen young galaxies like the one shown here in our corner of the universe. It was able to see them with the help of its highly sensitive ultraviolet detectors. Because newborn stars radiate ultraviolet light, young galaxies light up brilliantly when viewed in ultraviolet wavelengths. The findings came as a surprise, because astronomers had thought that the universe's "birth-rate" had declined, and that massive galaxies were no longer forming. http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07144

Date
2004-12-22
Photographer / author
NASA/JPL-Caltech
Collection
JPL
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
illustration (NASA artwork)

Public domainsafest

Reason: a NASA work: not copyrighted in the United States.

Read from: NASA media usage guidelines: NASA material is not copyrighted in the US unless noted; no third-party credit or mark found.

Credit line

"Fires of Galactic Youth Artist Animation" (2004-12-22). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA07144

What public domain means here

Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 15918.

More like this