NASA finds millions of Space Wienies

[rose]

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission has led to a bonanza of newfound supermassive black holes and extreme galaxies called hot DOGs, or dust-obscured galaxies.

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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2012/aug/HQ_12-295_WISE_Black_Holes.html

[Pimander]

Thanks Rose.


Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA

Extremely Bright and Extremely Rare

This image zooms in on the region around the first "hot DOG" (red object in magenta circle), discovered by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Hot DOGs are hot dust-obscured galaxies. Follow-up observations with the W.M. Keck Observatory on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, show this source is over 10 billion light-years away. It puts out at least 37 trillion times as much energy as the sun.

WISE has identified 1,000 similar candidate objects over the entire sky (magenta dots). These extremely dusty, brilliant objects are much more rare than the millions of active supermassive black holes also found by WISE (yellow circles).

SOURCE: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/WISE/multimedia/pia15813.html

Wise Mission Public Site

[robomont]

i love beautiful space pics.
my favorite porn.
hotdogs?lmao.
and im not even gay.

[Littleenki]

Cool find, Rose, Ill get the B.u.n.s....Big Universal Nebulas....:-)
So, we see theres more than meets the eye, and if they could, it would continue for infinity...ALL is ONE, and we are just a pimple on the arse of the universe.

Cheers!
Le