
This image is a portion of the all-sky survey from NASA WISE. It highlights the first of about 1,000 hot DOGs found by the mission magenta circle. Hot DOGs are hot dust-obscured galaxies and are among the most powerful galaxies known.
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NASA ID
PIA15814
Date Created
August 29, 2012
Center
JPL
Media Type
image
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