This image may not be used to state or imply ESA endorsement of any company or product North Galactic Pole as imaged in infrared by the Spectral and P
This image may not be used to state or imply ESA endorsement of any company or product North Galactic Pole as imaged in infrared by the Spectral and Photometric Imaging Receiver (SPIRE) on ESA's Herschel Space Observatory. The North Galactic Pole lies far from the cluttered disc of the Milky Way, and offers a clean, clear view of the distant Universe beyond. Every single point of light in this image is a distant galaxy. In the sky, the North Galactic Pole it is located somewhere in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices. Herschel was active from 2009 to 2013, and used its instruments to study the sky in the far infrared. SPIRE was particularly well-suited to mapping large areas of sky. This image is a single-filter map obtained at a wavelength of 250 micrometres as part of the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS), and covers some square degrees of sky. Image published in 2018. For the equivalent PACS Herschel image, see C045/6031.
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Photo credit: © EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY/Herschel/PACS; M. W. L. Smith et al 2017/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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