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Old 18-May-2007, 09:57 PM
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Why do the new stars look pink? Is it the dust from the residual accretion disks that does this?
Spitzer is an infrared observatory. The frequencies observed could be assigned to visible colors arbitrarily.

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This composite includes data from Spitzer's infrared array camera instrument, and multiband imaging photometer instrument. Light at 4.5 microns is shown as blue, 8.0 microns is green, and 24 microns is red.
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