Chandra Deep Field
Posted on Apr 28 2006 | Tagged as: Work, Science
I finally managed to dig out this image.
This is what I spent the majority of last year looking at (when I wasn’t looking at pages on Quark).
It’s an image of the Chandra Deep Field taken with the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Everything circled in green (the computer detects objects - I didn’t just scribble on the image) is another galaxy. There are several hundred in that image alone, and it’s a tiny fraction of the sky.
And what was I doing with it? Finding out whether one class of object contains more dust than another.
(Dust’s more important than you think.)
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on 30 Apr 2006 at 4:49 pm 1 Cat said …
I tried to read the wiki article but I got three paragraphs in when my brain started smoking and my eyes sparked. I’m not right good with science. Or dust seeing as how long it stays in my room for.