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Tiny Particles, So Far Away
Target: Mission: Spitzer Space Telescope Spacecraft: Spitzer Space Telescope Instrument: Multiband Imaging Photometer (MIPS) Size: 1419 x 707 ID#: PIA07218 Added: 2005-01-10
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope recently captured these images of the star Vega, located 25 light years away in the constellation Lyra.
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Massive Smash-up at Vega (Artist Concept)
Target: Mission: Spitzer Space Telescope Spacecraft: Spitzer Space Telescope Instrument: Size: 3000 x 2400 ID#: PIA07217 Added: 2005-01-10
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This artist concept illustrates how a massive collision of objects perhaps as large as the planet Pluto smashed together to create the dust ring around the nearby star Vega.