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The Dirt on Andromeda
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The Dirt on Andromeda

This image from NASA Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer highlights the dust that speckles the Andromeda galaxy spiral arms. The hot dust, which is being heated by newborn stars, traces the spidery arms all the way to the center of the galaxy.

Date
2010-02-17
Photographer / author
NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
Collection
JPL
Archive
NASA Image and Video Library
Type
photograph

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"The Dirt on Andromeda" (2010-02-17). NASA/JPL/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA. Public domain. https://images.nasa.gov/details/PIA12834

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