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The irregular galaxiy Messier 82 400px

Cigar Galaxy, from image archive.

Public domain This image is from the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) project. The images from this project have been released into the public domain.

2MASS kindly requests acknowledgement in one of the following forms, the longer of which is preferred.

  • Atlas Image [or Atlas Image mosaic] obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a joint project of the University of Massachusetts and the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center/California Institute of Technology, funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and the National Science Foundation.
  • Atlas Image [or Atlas Image mosaic] courtesy of 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF.


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current11:42, 7 May 2005400×400 (79 KB)CWitte (The irregular galaxiy '''Messier 82''' 149px '''SOURCE:''' http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/gallery/messiercat.html <br> '''Acknowledgment:''' '' Atlas Image obtained as part of the Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), a joint project of the Universit)
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