File:Pia17443 - Spitzer Spies Don Quixote.jpg

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Description	English: With the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that what was thought to be a large asteroid called Don Quixote is in fact a comet. The left image shows Don Quixote's coma and tail -- features of comets -- as revealed in infrared light by Spitzer. The coma appears as a faint glow around the center of the body, caused by dust and gas. The tail, which appears more clearly in the right image, points towards the right-hand side of Don Quixote, into the direction opposite of the sun. The right image represents a more elaborate image processing step, in which the glow of the coma has been removed based on a model comet coma. Bright speckles around Don Quixote are background stars; the horizontal bar covers image artifacts caused by the image processing.
Date	9 September 2013, 07:04:06
Source	https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/pia17443.html
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech/DLR/NAU

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