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.
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NASA ID
PIA10092
Date Created
October 25, 2007
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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