Posts Tagged ‘Spitzer Space Telescope’
Floppy Ears
01 February 2012
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (University of Wisconsin)
An elephant with big floppy ears peers from in this cloud of cold gas and dust in an image of RCW 49 from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Stellar Factory
19 January 2012
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
Standing and flying birds hide in a jungle of eyes in a star-making factory known as Cygnus X in this image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Growing, glowing spider
11 November 2011
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Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L.Townsley et al.; Infrared: NASA/JPL/PSU/L.Townsley et al.
A glowing spider is grows inside this massive star-forming region known as the Tarantula Nebula.
New face of a supernova
27 October 2011
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/B. Williams (NCSU)
The outline of a face show the remains of the oldest documented supernova in this infrared image of RCW 86 from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
Starry Garden of Petals and Waves
06 October 2011
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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/L. Allen (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA) and the IRAC GTO Team
A starry garden full of dusty petals and waves of gas fill this image of the Coronet Cluster from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
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