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Steamy Star in NGC 1333

Steamy Star in NGC 1333
 
 

This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a stellar nursery called NGC 1333. NGC 1333 is located about 1,000 light-years away in the Perseus constellation. It is a cloud of gas and dust that is busy manufacturing new stars.


Spitzer discovered that a pre-planetary disk of dust surrounding an embryonic star within this region, called NGC 1333-IRAS 4B, is drenched with water vapor.


Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. A. Gutermuth (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA)
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  20070829205348589
 Wed Aug 29, 2007 at 17:53 UTC
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