Stacks of Light
These two images show tacked Chandra images for two different classes of distant, massive galaxy detected with NASA Spitzer. Image stacking is a procedure used to detect emission from objects that is too faint to be detected in single images.
- Date
- 2007-10-25
- Photographer / author
- NASA/CXC
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Stacks of Light" (2007-10-25). NASA/JPL/NASA/CXC. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA10092Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 16372.
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