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The North America Nebula (Gallery Explorer)
Hidden Universe: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
English - February 10, 2011 00:00 - 58.5 MB Video - ★★★★ - 188 ratingsNatural Sciences Science astronomy infrared astronomer science physics spitzer space telescope hidden universe nasa nasa's Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Seen here in visible light, the North America Nebula strangely resembles its namesake continent. Expanding our view to include infrared light, the dark dust lanes and concealed stars glow in red colors while the continental gas clouds shift to an ocean-‐like blue. Pushing entirely into the infrared spectrum, we see even more detail in the convoluted dust clouds.