File:Counting the Youth in a Middle Aged Galaxy.jpg
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DescriptionCounting the Youth in a Middle Aged Galaxy.jpg |
English: This image is roughly 1/34 of the entire GLIMPSE Survey of our Milky Way galaxy. This small section is riddled with young stellar objects (circles). The number of young stars was used to estimate the heartbeat of the Milky Way, or how fast new stars are being born. |
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Source | http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/2994-sig10-002-Counting-the-Youth-in-a-Middle-Aged-Galaxy |
Author | NASA / JPL-Caltech / T. Robitaille (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), GLIMPSE Team |
Image use policy: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/info/18-Image-Use-Policy
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Image title | This image roughly 1/34 of the entire GLIMPSE Survey. This small section is riddled with young stellar objects, counted by Robitaille and his team. |
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Copyright holder | http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/copyright.shtml |
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File change date and time | 16:16, 10 March 2010 |
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