Dust Emission (IMAGE)

University of Kansas

Dust Emission

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This is the dust emission of the same blue-quasar galaxy. It is surprisingly bright -- in fact, it's one of the brightest objects in the field, indicating a lot of dust. Due to the resolution of the telescope, we cannot see what that dust actually looks like.

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Herschel/ESA

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