Stellar Sparkle

Spitzer_ssc2011-06c3_1024

spitzer_ssc2011-06c3 May 26th, 2011

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC)

This artist's conception shows green crystals of olivine raining down on a developing star like cosmic glitter. The crystals were spotted by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in a collapsing cloud of gas surrounding an embryonic star called HOPS-68. Stars form out of collapsing clouds. The growing stars feed off the clouds, accumulating more and more mass.

Provider: Spitzer Space Telescope

Image Source: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/3640-ssc2011-06c3-Stellar-Sparkle

Curator: Spitzer Space Telescope, Pasadena, CA, USA

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ssc2011-06c3
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle (SSC)
Release Date
2011-05-26
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Redshift
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http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/3640-ssc2011-06c3-Stellar-Sparkle
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Good
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Equinox
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Spitzer Space Telescope
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http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu
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1200 E. California Blvd.
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Pasadena
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CA
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91125
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USA
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Spitzer Science Center
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spitzer
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ssc2011-06c3.tif
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http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/uploaded_files/images/0006/8024/ssc2011-06c3.tif
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Metadata Date
2011-09-01
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1.1
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