By Dean Murray

Iconic spaceships from Star Trek have been spotted in space - according to playful rocket scientists.

The team from NASA Universe shared images on Monday, Sept. 8, of what appear to be the original USS Enterprise and the Enterprise-D from the Next Generation TV show.

The spectacle was captured by NASA's now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope and displays two regions of star formation within the disk of our Milky Way galaxy .

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NASA wrote: "Science fiction is inspired by real science … and vice versa! These dusty clouds within our Milky Way galaxy are the birthpl

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