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Charting Ingredients for Life
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Charting Ingredients for Life

NASA / JPL · 2005-07-27 · photograph (digital archive)

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This graph, or spectrum, from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope, charts light from a faraway galaxy located 10 billion light years from Earth. It tracks mid-infrared light from an extremely luminous galaxy when the universe was only 1/4 of its current age.

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Credit lineCharting Ingredients for Life. NASA/JPL, 2005-07-27. Public domain. ID: PIA03537.
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