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Image of the day 11/09/2014

NGC 2264 - Cone & Fox Nebulae (Dss2/WISE), Giuseppe Donatiello
NGC 2264 - Cone & Fox Nebulae (Dss2/WISE)
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NGC 2264 - Cone & Fox Nebulae (Dss2/WISE)

Image of the day 11/09/2014

NGC 2264 - Cone & Fox Nebulae (Dss2/WISE), Giuseppe Donatiello
NGC 2264 - Cone & Fox Nebulae (Dss2/WISE)
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NGC 2264 - Cone & Fox Nebulae (Dss2/WISE)

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Image Credits: Spitzer Space Telescope (**) / NASA/JPL-Caltech, DSS/POSS-II (*), Giuseppe Donatiello

(**) Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech

(*) The Second Palomar Observatory Sky Survey (POSS-II) was made by the California Institute of Technology with funds from the National Science Foundation, the National Geographic Society, the Sloan Foundation, the Samuel Oschin Foundation, and the Eastman Kodak Corporation.

For the composition was used a wide-field image IRAS to build an unsharp mask. IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite) was a joint project of NASA, the Netherlands Agency for Aerospace Programmes and the United Kingdom's Science and Engineering Research Council (1983)

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NGC 2264 - Cone & Fox Nebulae (Dss2/WISE), Giuseppe Donatiello

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