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First Stars or Stray Stars? A Cosmic Infrared Mystery

Left: Adolf Schaller for STScI; Right: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA; Processing: Judy Schmidt2014-11-06

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Our sky is filled with a diffuse background glow, known as the cosmic infrared background. Much of the light is from galaxies we know about, but previous Spitzer measurements have shown an extra component of unknown origin.

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  • Title: First Stars or Stray Stars? A Cosmic Infrared Mystery
  • Creator: Left: Adolf Schaller for STScI; Right: Hubble Legacy Archive, NASA, ESA; Processing: Judy Schmidt
  • Date Created: 2014-11-06
  • Rights: JPL
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