Galactic City at the Edge of the Universe (IMAGE)

University of California - Riverside

Galactic City at the Edge of the Universe

Caption

Members of the developing cluster COSMOS-AzTEC3 are shown here, circled in white, in this image taken by Japan's Subaru telescope atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The other dots in this picture are stars or galaxies that are not members of the cluster -- most of them are located closer to us than the cluster, but some are farther away. The two brightest spots are stars. Though they appear bright in this image, they are actually tens of thousands of times fainter than what we can see with our eyes.

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Subaru, NASA, JPL-Caltech.

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