The NASA Swift satellite has captured a galaxy that the human eye can not see. For the "what we see does not mean that there is"
photos were taken in the ultraviolet, the field that the human eye can not perceive.
the M33, it has been called, is a galaxy that is part of the location of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy. E 'distant 2.9 million miles from Earth, has a diameter of about 50 thousand light years and has a mass equal to one tenth of our galaxy.
The images, consisting of 34 frames taken in 11 hours of exposure, show a large amount of star formation and allow to perform studies would not have been possible.
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