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This image shows the galaxy named SBS 0335-052, which is in a class of galaxies called blue compact dwarfs
SBS 0335-052
SBS 0335-052, a previously known blue compact dwarf is located some 176 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus.
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  A striped sphere floating in a star field
Y-Dwarf
This artist's conception illustrates what a "Y dwarf" might look like
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WISE 1828+2650 is located in the constellation Lyra. The blue dots are a mix of stars and galaxies.
Coldest Dwarf
WISE has uncovered the coldest brown dwarf known so far (green dot in very center of this infrared image).
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  This artist's conception illustrates what brown dwarfs of different types might look like to a hypothetical interstellar traveler who has flown a spaceship to each one.
A Trio of Brown Dwarfs
This artist's conception illustrates what brown dwarfs of different types might look like to a hypothetical interstellar traveler who has flown a spaceship to each one.
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A reddish star field with one star in lower right circled in green.
2010 TK7
This is the first known Earth Trojan asteroid, discovered by NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting portion of NASA's WISE mission
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  starfield with with blue stars and green, yellow and red clouds of gas
IRDC_G11.11-0.11
The black areas in this image are exceptionally cold, dense cloud cores seen in silhouette against the bright diffuse infrared glow of the plane of the Milky Way.
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Gum 22 and CG4 are both part of an extensive star-forming complex known at the Gum Nebula Region, as shown.
CG 4
Seen here by NASA’s WISE, the cloud CG4 might be imagined as a cosmic alligator eating its way across the sky.
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  Messier 101 is a grand design spiral galaxy, a disk of hundreds of billions of stars with a small central bulge and prominent arms spiraling out from the center.
M 101
The galaxy, often called the Pinwheel galaxy, was designated object 101 in Charles Messier’s catalog of fuzzy things in the sky that are not comets.
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The multicolored clouds make up the Elephant's Trunk Nebula.  The bright 'trunk' of the nebula is located near the center of the image.
IC 1396
This image of the Elephant’s Trunk Nebula from NASA’s WISE shows clouds of dust and gas being pushed and eroded by a massive star.
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  The green and yellow multicolored clouds make up the GUM 22 region.
GUM 22
This image from NASA’s WISE, highlights several star-forming regions. There are four different HII regions in this one image alone.
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This image showcases galaxies of several types, from elegant grand design spirals to more patchy flocculent spirals. Some of the galaxies have roundish centers, while others have elongated central bars.
Galaxy Menagerie
A new, colorful collection of galaxy specimens has been released by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, mission.
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  The multicolored clouds make up the large complex of star forming clouds and stellar clusters found in the constellation Cygnus.
Heart of Cygnus
WISE captured this image of a huge complex of star forming clouds and stellar clusters found in the constellation Cygnus.
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A field of blue and cyan stars, with red and green wispy nebula at center.
NGC 1491
This latest image from WISE shows three different nebulae located in the constellation of Perseus.
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  NGC 2259 appears as a smattering of stars loosely clustered in an irregular group.
NGC 2259
NGC 2259 is an example of an open cluster where the stars are more loosely organized.
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WISE Image Service.
WISE Image Data Service
Steps to finding color images from WISE using the NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive.
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  A field of blue and cyan stars, with red and green wispy nebula at center.
NGC 2174
This picturesque image is of the nebula NGC 2174 on the border of the Gemini and Orion constellations.
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The green ring of dust surrounds the hot massive star, Lambda Orionis.
Lambda Orionis
In infrared light, NASA’s WISE reveals a giant nebula around Lambda Orionis, inflating Orion’s head to huge proportions.
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  WISE All Sky Map.
WISE All-Sky Map
This preliminary release will allow astronomers and astronomy enthusiasts worldwide to explore the sky as seen by WISE.
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