Texas A

Name: Texas A
Uploaded: 2018-11-02
Duration: 16 s

College of Arts & Sciences

This animation shows how the FourStar Galaxy Evolution Survey (ZFOURGE) builds a colorful photo album of galaxies by combining imaging taken at optical and near-infrared wavelengths. By staring at these patches of the sky for 45 nights, ZFOURGE measures distances to more than 60,000 galaxies spanning more than 12 billion years of cosmic time. To learn more, visit http://www.science.tamu.edu/articles/1643.