Super Starburst Galaxy
The green and red splotch in this image is the most active star-making galaxy in the very distant universe. Nicknamed Baby Boom, it was spotted 12.3 billion light-years away by a suite of telescopes, including NASA Spitzer Space Telescope.
- Date
- 2008-07-10
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech/Subaru/STScI
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"Super Starburst Galaxy" (2008-07-10). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Subaru/STScI . Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA10932Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 15993.
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