Embryonic Star's Outburst

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spitzer_sig15-003 March 23rd, 2015

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Toledo; background: E. Safron et al.

Infrared images from instruments at Kitt Peak National Observatory (left) and NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope document the outburst of HOPS 383, a young protostar in the Orion star-formation complex. The background is a wide view of the region taken from a Spitzer four-color infrared mosaic.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Spacecraft operations are based at Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Littleton, Colorado. Data are archived at the Infrared Science Archive housed at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at Caltech. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

Provider: Spitzer Space Telescope

Image Source: http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/6040-sig15-03-Embryonic-Star-s-Outburst

Curator: Spitzer Space Telescope, Pasadena, CA, USA

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NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Toledo; background: E. Safron et al.
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2015-03-23
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http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/6040-sig15-03-Embryonic-Star-s-Outburst
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2015-03-23
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