Hiding in Plain Sight: Undergraduates Discover the Densest Galaxies Known
Artist's depiction of the night sky as seen from a planet at the heart of an ultracompact galaxy. More than a million stars are visible with the naked eye, in contrast to the few thousand visible from Earth.
Credit:NASA, ESA, G. Bacon (STScI) and P. van Dokkum (Yale University)
About the Image
Id: | noao1503b |
Type: | Artwork |
Release date: | July 27, 2015 |
Related releases: | noao1503 |
Size: | 1280 x 1024 px |
About the Object
Category: | Illustrations |