Astronomers Discover an Infrared Background Glow in the Universe

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This picture represents a view of the sky after the foreground glow of the solar system dust has been extracted. This image is dominated by emission from interstellar dust in the Milky Way Galaxy. The two bright objects in the center of the lower right quadrant are nearby galaxies, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.

 

 

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Credit: Michael Hauser (STScI), the COBE/DIRBE Science Team, and NASA

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