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Images from Spitzer

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sig06-006: Great Galactic Buddies
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S.A. Stanford (UC Davis/LLNL)

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ssc2006-09a: Huge Hidden Halo!
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/C. Engelbracht (University of Arizona)

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sig06-004: Double Helix Nebula
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Morris (UCLA)

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ssc2006-08a: A Shocking Surprise in Stephan's Quintet
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Max-Planck Institute/P. Appleton (SSC/Caltech)

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ssc2006-06a: Crystal Storm in Distant Galaxy
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/H. W. W. Spoon (Cornell University)

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sig06-003: NGC 4579
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (University of Arizona) and the SINGS Team

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ssc2006-05a: Little Dust Grains in Giant Stellar Disks
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/B. Sargent (University of Rochester)

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sig06-005:Cartwheel Galaxy Makes Waves
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/P. N. Appleton (SSC/Caltech)

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sig06-002: Cosmic Tornado
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Bally (Univ. of Colo.)

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ssc2006-04a: Evidence for Comets Found in Dead Star's Dust
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kuchner (GSFC)

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ssc2006-03a: A Hidden, Massive Star Cluster Awash with Red Supergiants
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/D. Figer (STScI/RIT)

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ssc2006-02a: A Cauldron of Stars at the Galaxy's Center
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Stolovy (SSC/Caltech)

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ssc2006-02b: The Milky Way Center Aglow with Dust
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Stolovy (SSC/Caltech)

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ssc2006-01a: The Infrared Helix
Credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Hora (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

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ssc2006-01b: The Mark of a Dying Star
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/J. Hora (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA), C.R. O'Dell (Vanderbilt University)

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sig05-028: Stellar Snowflake Cluster
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/P.S. Teixeira (Center for Astrophysics)

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ssc2005-26a: Life's Starting Materials Found in Dusty Disk
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/F. Lahuis (Leiden Observatory)

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sig05-025: A GLIMPSE of the Milky Way
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (Univ. Wisconsin)

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sig05-024: A New Star Cluster
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Mercer (Boston University)

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sig05-023: Star Clusters Found in the Milky Way
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Mercer (Boston University)

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sig05-021: Dwarf Galaxies Swimming in Tidal Tails
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. J. U. Higdon (Cornell University)

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ssc2005-24a: Chaotic Star Birth
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. A. Gutermuth (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

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ssc2005-23a: Now You See Stars, Now You Don't
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/L. Allen (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

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ssc2005-23b: Towering Infernos
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/L. Allen (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

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ssc2005-22a: Fiery First Stars
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/A. Kashlinsky (GSFC)

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sig05-020: Black Widow Nebula Hiding in the Dust
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and the GLIMPSE Team

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sig05-019: A SWIRE Picture is Worth Billions of Years
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/C. Lonsdale (Caltech/IPAC) and the SWIRE Team

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ssc2005-21a: Planet Clumps and Crystals around Brown Dwarfs
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/D. Apai (University of Arizona)

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ssc2005-20a: Three Faces of Andromeda
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Gordon (University of Arizona)

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ssc2005-19a: Big Galaxy in Baby Universe
Credit: NASA, ESA/JPL-Caltech/B. Mobasher (STScI/ESA)

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ssc2005-19b: Spitzer and Hubble Team Up To Find 'Big Baby' Galaxies in the Newborn Universe
Credit: NASA, ESA/JPL-Caltech/B. Mobasher (STScI/ESA)

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sig05-017: NGC 7793
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (University of Arizona) and the SINGS Team

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sig05-016: NGC 3627 (M66)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (University of Arizona) and the SINGS Team

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sig05-015: NGC 3351 (M95)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (University of Arizona) and the SINGS Team

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sig05-014: NGC 2976
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (University of Arizona) and the SINGS Team

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sig05-013: NGC 1566
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (University of Arizona) and the SINGS Team

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ssc2005-18a: Tempel 1's Secret Ingredients Revealed
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/C. Lisse (Johns Hopkins Univ./Univ. of Maryland)

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sig05-011: Spitzer Turns Two (NGC 4725)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (University of Arizona) and the SINGS Team

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ssc2005-17a: Gorilla Black Hole in the Mist
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/A. Martinez-Sansigre (Oxford University)

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ssc2005-15a: Charting Ingredients for Life
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/L. Yan (SSC/Caltech)

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sig05-008: Jupiter-Family Comets
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/W. Reach (Caltech)

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ssc2005-14a: A Year in the Life of an Infrared Echo
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/O. Krause (Steward Observatory)

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ssc2005-14b: Dead Star Rumbles
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/O. Krause (Steward Observatory)

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ssc2005-14c: Cassiopeia A: Death Becomes Her
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/O. Krause (Steward Observatory)

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sig05-007: Gamma-Ray Burst 050525a
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/P. Garnavich (Notre Dame)

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sig05-006: Interacting Galaxy Pair Arp 107
Credit: NNASA/JPL-Caltech/B. J. Smith (East Tennessee State University)

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sig05-005: Interacting Galaxy Pair Arp 65
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. L. Giroux (East Tennessee State University)

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sig05-004: Crab Nebula Supernova Remnant (IRAC-MIPS Image)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Gehrz (University of Minnesota)

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sig05-003: Crab Nebula Supernova Remnant (IRAC Image)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Gehrz (University of Minnesota)

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ssc2005-12a: All Pillars Point to Eta
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/N. Smith (Univ. of Colorado at Boulder)

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ssc2005-11a: Spitzer Spies Spectacular Sombrero
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (University of Arizona) & the SINGS Team and NASA/Hubble Space Telescope/Hubble Heritage Team

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ssc2005-10a: Super-Comet or Big Asteroid Belt?
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/C. Beichman (JPL)

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sig05-002: Splendid Splinter
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M.L.N. Ashby (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

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sig05-001: A Bubble Bursts
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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ssc2005-09a: The Language of Planetary Light
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/D. Charbonneau (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
and NASA/JPL-Caltech/D. Deming (Goddard Space Flight Center)

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ssc2005-08a: Fingerprints in the Light
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Houck (Cornell University)

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ssc2005-07a: Ring Beholds a Delicate Flower
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Hora (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

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ssc2005-06a: Planetary Building Blocks Found in Surprising Place
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

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ssc2005-02a: New Views of a Familiar Beauty
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Rho (SSC/Caltech)

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ssc2005-02b:Stellar 'Incubators' Seen Cooking up Stars
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Rho (SSC/Caltech)

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ssc2005-04a: Riding a Trail of Debris
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Kelley (Univ. of Minnesota)

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ssc2005-03a: Mysterious Blob Galaxies Revealed
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/H. Teplitz (SSC/Caltech)

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ssc2005-01a: Tiny Particles, So Far Away
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Su (University of Arizona)

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ssc2004-22c: Is There Anybody Home?
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/C. Beichman (Caltech)

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ssc2004-21a: Kuiper Belt Object 2002 AW197
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Stansberry (Univ. of Arizona)

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ssc2004-20c: Spitzer Spectrum of Ices in a Protoplanetary Disc
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Pontoppidan (Leiden Observatory)

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ssc2004-20a: The Starless Core That Isn't
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/N. Evans (Univ. of Texas at Austin)/DSS

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ssc2004-19a: First Peek at Spitzer's Legacy: Mysterious Whirlpool Galaxy
Credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (Univ. of Arizona)

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ssc2004-18a: 'Galactic Ghoul' Rears Its Spooky Head
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S.Carey (Caltech)

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ssc2004-16b: Galactic Fossil Found Behind Curtain of Dust
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/H. Kobulnicky (Univ. of Wyoming)

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ssc2004-16a: Spitzer Digs Up Galactic Fossil
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/H. Kobulnicky (Univ. of Wyoming)

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SSC2004-15b: Kepler's Supernova Remnant: Views from Chandra, Hubble and Spitzer
Credit: NASA/ESA/R. Sankrit and W. Blair (Johns Hopkins University)

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SSC2004-15a: NASA's Great Observatories Provide a Detailed View of Kepler's Supernova Remnant
Credit: NASA/ESA/R. Sankrit and W. Blair (Johns Hopkins University)

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SSC2004-14a: Fire Within the Antennae Galaxies
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Z. Wang (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

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SSC2004-13a: Ring of Stellar Death
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Hora (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

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SSC2004-12a: Morphology of Our Galaxy's 'Twin'
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Regan (STScI), and the SINGS Team

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SSC2004-10c: Hidden Black Holes
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Yale

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SSC2004-10b: Old and 'Red' Distant Galaxies
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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SSC2004-10a: Infrared Detective to the Rescue
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI

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SSC2004-09a: A Parallelogram-Shaped Meal
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Keene (SSC/Caltech)

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SSC2004-09b: A Parallelogram-Shaped Meal (processed to accentuate different features)
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Keene (SSC/Caltech)

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SSC2004-08c: Spectra Show Protoplanetary Disc Structures
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/D. Watson (University of Rochester)

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SSC2004-08b: Spitzer Spectra of Protoplanetary Discs
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/D. Watson (University of Rochester)

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SSC2004-08a: Stellar Jewels Shine in New Spitzer Image
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Churchwell (University of Wisconsin)

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SSC2004-07b: Dissection of a Galaxy
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/G. Helou (Caltech)

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SSC2004-07a: A Natal Microcosm
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/G. Melnick (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

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SSC2004-06b: Spitzer/IRAC, DSS/visible, and 2MASS composite of DR21.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/A. Marston (ESTEC/ESA)

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SSC2004-06a: Spitzer/IRAC-MIPS view of DR21.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/A. Marston (ESTEC/ESA) & A. Noriega-Crespo (SSC/Caltech)

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SSC2004-04a: Star formation in Henize 206.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/V. Gorjian (JPL) & NOAO

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SSC2004-02a: NGC 7129
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Megeath (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)

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SSC2004-01a: The Tarantula Nebula
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/B. Brandl (Cornell & University of Leiden)

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SSC2003-06k: Lifting the Cosmic Veil (sampler).
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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SSC2003-06j: Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/D. Cruikshank (NASA Ames) & J. Stansberry (University of Arizona)

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SSC2003-06i: Circumstellar disk around Fomalhaut.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Stapelfeldt (JPL), James Clerk Maxwell Telescope

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SSC2003-06h: Spectrum from faint galaxy IRAS F00183-7111.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/L. Armus (SSC/Caltech), H. Kline (JPL), Digital Sky Survey

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SSC2003-06g: Spectrum from embedded star in Herbig-Haro 46/47.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/A. Noriega-Crespo (SSC/Caltech), H. Kline (JPL)

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SSC2003-06f: Embedded outflows from Herbig-Haro 46/47.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/A. Noriega-Crespo (SSC/Caltech), Digital Sky Survey

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SSC2003-06e: Long-wavelength infrared views of spiral galaxy Messier 81.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Gordon (University of Arizona)

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SSC2003-06d: Multiple infrared views of spiral galaxy Messier 81.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/K. Gordon (University of Arizona) & S. Willner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), N.A. Sharp (NOAO/AURA/NSF)

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SSC2003-06c: Short-wavelength infrared view of spiral galaxy Messier 81.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/S. Willner (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)

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SSC2003-06b: Protostars uncovered in multiple views of dark globule in IC1396.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/W. Reach (SSC/Caltech)

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SSC2003-06a: Dark globule in IC 1396 illuminated by Spitzer Space Telescope.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/W. Reach (SSC/Caltech)

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SSC2003-03a: "Aliveness Test" Image.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech



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