esahubble_opo9801b 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/opo9801b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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