Space / 2009-08-19
A Lesson in Counting Stars
NASA's image library records A Lesson in Counting Stars.
These two photographs were made by combining data from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile to learn that not all galaxies make stars of different sizes in the same quantities.
A CLOSER LOOK
These two photographs were made by combining data from NASA Galaxy Evolution Explorer spacecraft and the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile to learn that not all galaxies make stars of different sizes in the same quantities.
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NASA Image and Video LibraryA Lesson in Counting StarsOriginal explanation based on the sources above. Images carry their own reuse terms.