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07-07-2010 The Evolution of Star Formation around the M17 Nebula |
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04-02-2010 Orion's Dreamy Stars |
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03-17-2010 Prehistoric Black Hole |
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01-05-2010 Little Galaxy Explored |
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11-10-2009 NASA's Great Observatories Examine the Galaxy Center |
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10-06-2009 Artist's Rendering of Saturn's Infrared Ring |
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10-06-2009 Infrared Ring Around Saturn |
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08-10-2009 Planetary Demolition Derby |
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08-05-2009 Cygnus Star Forming Region DR22 |
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07-23-2009 The Coiled Galaxy NGC 1097 |
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04-03-2009 M33: Infrared View of a Close Neighbor |
A new survey by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has turned up treasures aplenty in the outer regions of the Milky Way, where amidst fogs of interstellar chemicals some rare, young and enormous stars are blasting gas out into space.
NASA Spacescapes on your Desktop
07.28.10
Today Microsoft, in collaboration with the Spitzer team, has released a new "NASA Spacescapes" Windows theme that features some of the most amazing astrophysics imagery NASA has to offer. The pictures feature results from seven different NASA missions and include many that combine data from multiple telescopes, spanning the light spectrum.
