A Snapshot of the Sky Taken by the Herschel Space Telescope (IMAGE)

Cardiff University

A Snapshot of the Sky Taken by the Herschel Space Telescope

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A small glimpse of one region, a tenth of the full area of the Herschel ATLAS images. Everything in this image, apart from the picture of the moon, which has just been placed there to show the area of sky covered by the survey and the small square that shows the area covered by the Hubble Deep Field, consists of far-infrared emission from cosmic dust.

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The Herschel ATLAS team and the European Space Agency

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