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Artwork inspired by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is making a manifestation at this year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia. No, it's not battling other telescopes for the "gold," but its comments are now on display as part of the Vancouver 2010 Cultural Olympiad Festival.

The Spitzer art project, called "We are Stardust," was created by George Legrady, a lecturer at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The two-screen mechanism maps the sequence of 36,034 observations made by the space telescope from 2003 to 2008. Spitzer sees infrared light from the cosmos, capturing images of all from comets in our solar system to galaxies billions of light-years away.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.