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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.
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current08:50, 22 March 2006709×709 (23 KB)Maxim Razin (* '''Source''': http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA07218 * '''Image Credit''': NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona * '''Image produced by''': Spitzer Space Telescope (SST))
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