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The Carina nebula, which is about 7,5000 light-years from Earth. On the left, the a composite infrared portrait and on the right a composite visible-light portrait. See Science News for a more complete explanation of how these images were generated.

+ (photo: NASA, ESA, Mario Livio and STScI)

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