DIRBE 240 micrometer image of sky

Esahubble_opo9801d_1024

esahubble_opo9801d January 9th, 1998

Credit: Michael Hauser (STScI), the COBE/DIRBE Science Team, and NASA/ESA

Astronomers have assembled the first definitive detection of a background infrared glow across the sky produced by dust warmed by all the stars that have existed since the beginning of time. For scientists, the discovery of this "fossil radiation" is akin to turning out all the lights in a bedroom only to find the walls, floor, and ceiling aglow with an eerie luminescence.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9801d/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment DIRBE
Subject - General
Cosmology > Morphology > Deep Field

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Pseudocolor Other (None) Infrared (Far-IR) 240.0 µm
Spectrum_ir1
Pseudocolor
Esahubble_opo9801d_1280
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ID
opo9801d
Subject Category
E.6.1.1  
Subject Name
Diffuse Infrared Background Experiment, DIRBE
Credits
Michael Hauser (STScI), the COBE/DIRBE Science Team, and NASA/ESA
Release Date
1998-01-09T06:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9801d/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Facility
Other
Instrument
None
Color Assignment
Pseudocolor
Band
Infrared
Bandpass
Far-IR
Central Wavelength
240000
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:
Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
Telephone
Address
Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City
Garching bei München
State/Province
Postal Code
D-85748
Country
Germany
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Publisher
ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID
esahubble
Resource ID
opo9801d
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:49:52+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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