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Cosmic Sparklers

NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/NOAO/DSS2015-07-02

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This new composite image of stellar cluster NGC 1333 combines X-rays from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory (pink); infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (red); and optical data from the Digitized Sky Survey and the National Optical Astronomical Observatories' Mayall 4-meter telescope on Kitt Peak near Tucson, Arizona. The Chandra data reveal 95 young stars glowing in X-ray light, 41 of which had not been seen previously using Spitzer because they lacked infrared emission from a surrounding disk.

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19347

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  • Title: Cosmic Sparklers
  • Creator: NASA/CXC/JPL-Caltech/NOAO/DSS
  • Date Created: 2015-07-02
  • Rights: JPL
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