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DescriptionVega-IR.jpg	English: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope recently captured this image of the star Vega, located 25 light years away in the constellation Lyra. Spitzer was able to detect the heat radiation from the cloud of dust around the star and found that the debris disc is much larger than previously thought. This side by side comparison, taken by Spitzer's multiband imaging photometer, shows the warm infrared glows from dust particles orbiting the star. The left image was taken at λ=24µm; the right at λ=70µm
Date	10-01-2005
Source	http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07218
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
Other versions	File:Vega Spitzer.jpg

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