Spitzer Space Telescope

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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope took this extraordinary image of a baby star sprouting two identical jets. It was launched in August 2003 and has since been drifting in a Earth-trailing orbit around the Sun. If you want to track where Spitzer is right now, click here.

March 1, 2012 5:46 AM PST

Photo by: NASA

| Caption by: Charles Cooper

 

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