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A Picture of Unsettled Planetary Youth

An infrared image of the young star HR 8799

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured this infrared image of a giant halo of very fine dust around the young star HR 8799, located 129 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus.

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Exotic Atmospheres

This artist's concept shows a cloudy Jupiter-like planet that orbits very close to its fiery hot star.

The basic chemistry for life has been detected in a second hot gas planet, HD 209458b, depicted in this artist's concept.

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Big Band of Dust

a slice of Saturn's largest ring

This picture shows a slice of Saturn's largest ring, as seen in infrared light by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

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  • hot gas in a galaxy about a billion light-years away

    To Catch a Galactic Thief

    A big bully of a galaxy has been caught stealing gas -- fuel for stars -- from a nearby, smaller galaxy.

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