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Nebula RCW 79 Wallpaper

This image of a nebula known as RCW 79 was captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. This nebula is located in the southern Milky Way, 17,200 light-years from Earth in the constellation Centaurus. The bubble is 70 light-years in diameter, and probably took about one million years to form from the radiation and winds of hot young stars.

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