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Spitzer Space Telescope

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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/E. Holmes (NRC/JPL)

A 12-second animation shows how ansae are created, by taking a model dust ring and tilting it from a face-on orientation to edge-on.

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The Spitzer Space Telescope is a NASA mission managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This website is maintained by the Spitzer Science Center, located on the campus of the California Institute of Technology and part of NASA's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center.