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VISTA stares deep into the cosmos

Posted on Thursday, March 22, 2012
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VISTA stares deep into the cosmos
Image credit: ESO/UltraVISTA team. Acknowledgement: TERAPIX/CNRS/INSU/CASU

Uploader comment: This view shows a section of the widest deep view of the sky ever taken using infrared light, with a total effective exposure time of 55 hours. It was created by combining more than 6000 individual images from the VISTA survey telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.


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