and Cynthia Woods Mitchell Institute for Fundamental Physics and Astronomy, and her team have spent the past four months analyzing images taken from the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS), essentially looking back in time nearly 10 billion years at a high red-shift cluster known as CLG J02182-05102.
What does MIPS stand for?
MIPS stands for Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (IR camera for NASA's Spitzer Telescope)
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To the left is the best image of M51, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, with the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS), juxtaposed with the Herschel observation on 14 and 15 June at 160 microns.