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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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This artist's conception illustrates what a "Y dwarf" might look like
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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WISE captured this image of a huge complex of star forming clouds and stellar clusters found in the constellation Cygnus.
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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 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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This picturesque image is of the nebula NGC 2174 on the border of the Gemini and Orion constellations.
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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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This preliminary release will allow astronomers and astronomy enthusiasts worldwide to explore the sky as seen by WISE.
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