The Case of the Disappearing Continent
This infrared image from NASA Spitzer Space Telescope shows a swirling landscape of stars known as the North America nebula. Clusters of young stars about one million years old can be found throughout the image.
- Date
- 2011-02-10
- Photographer / author
- NASA/JPL-Caltech
- Collection
- JPL
- Archive
- NASA Image and Video Library
- Type
- photograph
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"The Case of the Disappearing Continent" (2011-02-10). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA13843Need photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 25100.
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