Saturday, December 3, 2005

Series: One Excellent News Photo #5

A reflection nebula called NGC 1333 located 1,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus is shown in this image from the Spitzer Space Telescope released by NASA on November 15, 2005. The knotty yellow-green features located in the lower portion of the image are glowing shock fronts where jets of material, spewed from extremely young embryonic stars, are plowing into the cold, dense gas nearby. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope can detect the infrared light from these objects, allowing us to peer inside their dusty cradles. NO SALES NO ARCHIVES EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/NASA/JPL Caltech/R. Gutermuth/Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/Handout PHOTOBYTE
A reflection nebula called NGC 1333 located 1,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Perseus is shown in this image from the Spitzer Space Telescope released by NASA on November 15, 2005. The knotty yellow-green features located in the lower portion of the image are glowing shock fronts where jets of material, spewed from extremely young embryonic stars, are plowing into the cold, dense gas nearby. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope can detect the infrared light from these objects, allowing us to peer inside their dusty cradles. REUTERS/NASA/JPL Caltech/R. Gutermuth/Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics/Handout

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