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Add Image to Favorite List 2016-04-26 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This illustration shows a star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk.
PIA20645:
Protoplanetary Disk (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (13.92 MB)     JPEG (629.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-04-02 Helix Nebula Hubble Space Telescope
 Hubble Space Telescope
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This image of the Helix Nebula from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows a fine web of filamentary 'bicycle-spoke' features embedded in the colorful red and blue gas ring, which is one of the nearest planetary nebulae to Earth.
PIA18164:
Iridescent Glory of Nearby Helix Nebula
Full Resolution:     TIFF (768.1 MB)     JPEG (27.72 MB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2014-03-06 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Magnetic loops carrying gas and dust above disks of planet-forming material circling stars are shown in this artist's conception, which NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope detects as infrared light.
PIA17849:
Loops of Gas and Dust Rise from Planetary Disks (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (24.89 MB)     JPEG (461.2 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2013-01-30 Herschel Space Observatory
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This artist's illustration shows a planetary disk (left) that weighs the equivalent of 50 Jupiter-mass planets. It demonstrates a first-of-its-kind feat from astronomers using the Herschel space observatory.
PIA16683:
Weighing Planetary Disks (Artist's Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (30.75 MB)     JPEG (358.7 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2008-11-11 Spitzer Space Telescope
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has, for the first time, detected tiny quartz-like crystals sprinkled in young planetary systems. The crystals, which are types of silica minerals called cristobalite and tridymite.
PIA11417:
Quartz-like Crystals Found in Planetary Disks
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.6 MB)     JPEG (607 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-29 NGC 1333 Spitzer Space Telescope
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed a fledgling solar system like the one depicted in this artist's concept, and discovered deep within it enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times.
PIA09967:
Water's Early Journey in a Solar System (Artist Concept)
Full Resolution:     TIFF (23.04 MB)     JPEG (336.4 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-08-29 NGC 1333 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This diagram illustrates the earliest journeys of water in a young, forming star system. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was able to probe a crucial phase of this stellar evolution.
PIA09966:
Steamy Solar System
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.6 MB)     JPEG (167.5 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-04-18 Rosette Nebula Spitzer Space Telescope
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope surveyed the danger zones around five O-stars in the Rosette nebula. This artist's animation illustrates how this process works.
PIA09266:
Highway to the Danger Zone (Artist Concept) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (23.76 MB)     JPEG (244.6 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2007-03-29 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This diagram illustrates that mature planetary systems like our own might be more common around twin, or binary, stars that are either really close together, or really far apart.
PIA09227:
Where Planets Take up Residence
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.6 MB)     JPEG (348.8 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-12-08 Spitzer Space Telescope
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Infant stars are glowing gloriously in this image of the Serpens star-forming region, captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The reddish-pink dots are baby stars deeply embedded in the cosmic cloud of gas and dust that collapsed to create it.
PIA09072:
Seeing Stars in Serpens
Full Resolution:     TIFF (19.27 MB)     JPEG (752 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-10-03 Spitzer Space Telescope
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The potential planet-forming disk (or 'protoplanetary disk') of a sun-like star is being violently ripped away by the powerful winds of a nearby hot O-type star in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
PIA01319:
A Star's Close Encounter
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Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-05 Spitzer Space Telescope
W. M. Keck Observatory
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Keck I Telescope
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This plot shows that a pulsar, the remnant of a stellar explosion, is surrounded by a disk of its own ashes. The disk, revealed by the two data points at the far right from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, is the first ever found around a pulsar.
PIA08041:
Circle of Ashes
Full Resolution:     TIFF (16.45 MB)     JPEG (212.9 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2006-04-05 Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept depicts a type of dead star called a pulsar and the surrounding disk of rubble discovered by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The pulsar, called 4U 0142+61, was once a massive star until about 100,000 years ago.
PIA08040:
Stellar Rubble May be Planetary Building Blocks (Artist Concept) Animation Icon
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Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-13 Cygnus W. M. Keck Observatory
 Keck I Telescope
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This frame from an artist's animation shows the clockwork-like orbits of a triple-star system called HD 188753, which was discovered to harbor a gas giant, or 'hot Jupiter,' planet.
PIA03521:
Circus Family of Stars (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (21.6 MB)     JPEG (147.3 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2005-07-01 Comet Spitzer Space Telescope
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This artist's concept depicts one of the most widely accepted theories pertaining to the origin of comets. This image is courtesy of NASA's Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif.
PIA02107:
Genesis of a Comet (Artist's Concept) Animation Icon
Full Resolution:     TIFF (943.1 kB)     JPEG (30.67 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-28 Mars Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
 Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)
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Taken on May 22, 2003, this image from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor is the first image of Earth ever taken from another planet that actually shows our home as a planetary disk when Jupiter, Earth, and the Moon aligned.
PIA04529:
Earth, Moon, and Jupiter, as seen from Mars
Full Resolution:     TIFF (102 kB)     JPEG (8.933 kB)
Add Image to Favorite List 2003-05-22 Earth Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
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This is the first image of Earth ever taken from another planet that actually shows our home as a planetary disk. This image is from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor.
PIA04531:
Earth and Moon as viewed from Mars
Full Resolution:     TIFF (197.6 kB)     JPEG (17.52 kB)
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