
This cloud of glowing gas is the Iris nebula, also called NGC 7023.as seen in infrared light by NASA Spitzer Space Telescope. It lies 1,300 light-years away in the Cepheus constellation.
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NASA ID
PIA17015
Date Created
May 24, 2013
Center
JPL
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