An album of space images—including a poignant shot of a blacked-out North Korea—tell this month’s tale of our place in the cosmos.
Window on Infinity: From Saturn to Mars to Deep Space to Home
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A Hubble Space Telescope image of a galaxy known as MCG-03-04-014, released on Feb. 25, 2014. The galaxy belongs to a class of galaxies called luminous infrared galaxies, which are incredibly bright in the infrared part of the spectrum. The luminosity is due to a recent burst of star formation or a fiercely powerful 'monster' black hole lurking at their core, or a mix of the two.