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The Spider Nebula

The Spider Nebula
Date taken Thu Apr 14 2016 Authorship NASA's JPL centre Keywords & Keyphrases Spitzer Space Telescope Metadata JSON

Behind the image

The spider part of The Spider and the Fly nebulae, IC 417 abounds in star formation, as seen in this infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope and the Two Micron All Sky Survey 2MASS.