Spitzer's SPLASH project dives deep for galaxies
Wednesday, September 10, 2014 - 04:40
in Astronomy & Space
(Phys.org) —A new survey of galaxies by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is taking a plunge into the deep and uncharted waters of our cosmos. In one of the longest surveys the telescope will have ever performed, astronomers have begun a three-month expedition trawling for faint galaxies billions of light-years away.