File:False-Color Image of Double Helix Nebula.jpg

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Description	English: The double helix nebula. The spots are infrared-luminous stars, mostly red giants and red supergiants. Many other stars are present in this region, but are too dim to appear even in this sensitive infrared image. The double helix nebula is approximately 300 light-years from the enormous black hole at the center of the Milky Way. (The Earth is more than 25,000 light-years from the black hole at the galactic center.) This false-color image was taken by the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS).
Date	15 March 2005
Source	http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/2305-sig06-004-Double-Helix-Nebula
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Morris (UCLA)

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Image title	The double helix nebula. The spots are infrared-luminous stars, mostly red giants and red supergiants. Many other stars are present in this region, but are too dim to appear even in this sensitive infrared image. The double helix nebula is approximately 300 light-years from the enormous black hole at the center of the Milky Way. (The Earth is more than 25,000 light-years from the black hole at the galactic center.) This false-color image was taken by the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS).
Author	Spitzer Space Telescope
Copyright holder	http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/mediaimages/copyright.shtml
Short title	Double Helix Nebula
Credit/Provider	NASA/JPL-Caltech/M. Morris (UCLA)
Headline	The double helix nebula as revelaed in the infrared by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The spots are infrared-luminous stars, mostly red giants and red supergiants. Many other stars are present in this region, but are too dim to appear even in this sensitive infrared image.
Source	Spitzer Space Telescope
Usage terms	Public Domain
Date and time of data generation	15 March 2005
Width	829 px
Height	1,000 px
Bits per component	8 8 8
Compression scheme	LZW
Pixel composition	RGB
Orientation	Normal
Number of components	3
Horizontal resolution	72 dpi
Vertical resolution	72 dpi
Data arrangement	chunky format
Software used	Adobe Photoshop CS3 Macintosh
File change date and time	14:33, 5 June 2009
Color space	Uncalibrated
Contact information	http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu 1200 E. California Blvd. Pasadena, CA, 91125 USA
Keywords	Double Helix Nebula
IIM version	2

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