Galaxies Burn Bright Like High-Wattage Light Bulbs
NASA WISE has identified about 1,000 extremely obscured objects over the sky, as marked by the magenta symbols. These hot dust-obscured galaxies, or hot DOGs, are turning out to be among the most luminous.
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August 29, 2012
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