![This image shows the galaxy named SBS 0335-052, which is in a class of galaxies called blue compact dwarfs](gallery_images/SBS0335-052-thumb.jpg) |
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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](gallery_images/A-YDwarfArt-thumb.jpg) |
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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.](gallery_images/WISE2011-028-thumb.jpg) |
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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.](gallery_images/C-BrownDwarfLineup-thumb.jpg) |
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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.
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![A reddish star field with one star in lower right circled in green.](gallery_images/WISE2011-026-thumb.jpg) |
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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](gallery_images/WISE2011-027-thumb.jpg) |
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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.](gallery_images/WISE2011-024-thumb.jpg) |
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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.](gallery_images/WISE2011-025-thumb.jpg) |
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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.](gallery_images/WISE2011-022-thumb.jpg) |
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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.](gallery_images/WISE2011-023-thumb.jpg) |
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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.](gallery_images/WISE2011-020-thumb.jpg) |
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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.](gallery_images/WISE2011-021-thumb.jpg) |
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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.](gallery_images/WISE2011-018-thumb.jpg) |
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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.](gallery_images/WISE2011-019-thumb.jpg) |
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NGC 2259 is an example of an open cluster where the stars are more loosely organized.
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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.](gallery_images/WISE2011-017-thumb.jpg) |
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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.](../gallery_images/WISE2011-015-thumb.jpg) |
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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.](../gallery_images/WISE2011-016-thumb.jpg) |
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This preliminary release will allow astronomers and astronomy enthusiasts worldwide to explore the sky as seen by WISE.
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