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This new view of spiral galaxy IC 342 (Caldwell 5) includes data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). High-energy X-ray data from NuSTAR have been translated to the color magenta and superimposed on a visible-light view highlighting the galaxy and its star-studded arms. NuSTAR is the first orbiting telescope to take focused pictures of the cosmos in high-energy X-ray light. Previous observations of this same galaxy taken at similar wavelengths blurred the entire object into one pixel. // Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/DSS