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Θέμα: Nasa : Wise telescope 23.02.10 10:23
This infrared WISE image shows a star-forming cloud 20,000 light years away that is teeming with gas, dust and massive newborn stars. The inset reveals the centre of the cloud, a cluster of stars called NGC 3603
Visitor from deep space: Comet Siding Spring was discovered in 2007. The mass of ice and dust spent billions of years orbiting in a spherical cloud of comets surrounding our solar system, before it was knocked onto a course nearer the Sun.
A dense cluster of galaxies captured by WISE. The cluster, called Fornax because of its location in a constellation of the same name, is 60 million light-years from Earth, and is one of the closest galaxy clusters to the Milky Way
The immense Andromeda galaxy, also known as M31 is the Milky Way's neighbour. The mosaic covers an area equivalent to more than 100 full moons
