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North America Nebula in Different Lights

North America Nebula in Different Lights
Date taken Thu Feb 10 2011 Authorship NASA's JPL centre Keywords & Keyphrases Spitzer Space Telescope Metadata JSON

Behind the image

This view of the North America nebula combines both visible and infrared light observations, taken by the Digitized Sky Survey and NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. Clusters of young stars about one million years old can be found throughout the image.