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About the Object	Object Name: IRS 46 (also known as YLW16b, GY274) Object Type: young stellar object Position (J2000): RA: 16h 27m 29.4s Dec: -24d 39m 16.3s Distance: 125 pc (410 light-years) Constellation: Ophiuchus
About the Data	Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/F. Lahuis (Leiden Observatory) Instrument: IRS SH / LH Wavelength: 9.9 - 19.6 microns / 18.7-37.2 microns Exposure Date: 2004 August 29 Exposure Time: 125.8s / 58.7s Release Date: Dec. 20, 2005
Observers	Fred Lahuis (Leiden Observatory) Neal Evans (University of Texas at Austin) Ewine F. van Dishoeck (Leiden Observatory) A. C. Adwin Boogert (California Institute of Technology) Klaus Pontoppidan (Leiden Observatory) Geoffery Blake (California Institute of Technology) Cornelius Dullemond (Max-Plank-Institut fur Astronomie) Michiel Hogerheijde (Leiden Observatory) Jes Jorgensen (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) Jacqueline Kessler-Silacci (University of Texas at Austin) Claudia Knez (University of Texas at Austin)

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