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An Audience Favorite Nebula

An Audience Favorite Nebula
Date taken Thu Mar 08 2012 Authorship NASA's JPL centre Keywords & Keyphrases Spitzer Space Telescope Metadata JSON

Behind the image

This nebula, which is in the constellation of Scutum, has no common name since it is hidden behind dust clouds. It takes an infrared telescope like NASA Spitzer to see through this dark veil and reveal this spectacular hidden nebula.