Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen Wall Art Framed Canvas and red for nitrogen

and red for nitrogen

The merging galaxies

800 light-years from Earth and is home to a new cluster of stars born from the cloud nearly 8 million years ago

and more "fingers" can be seen nearly face-on

Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen Wall Art Framed Canvas and red for nitrogenSixteen years ago, NASA launched its Spitzer Space Telescope into orbit around the Sun. Since the observatory launched on Aug. 25, 2003, it has been lifting the veil on the wonders of the cosmos, from our own solar system to faraway galaxies, using infrared light. Spitzer's primary mission lasted five and a half years and ended when it ran out of the liquid helium coolant necessary to operate two of its three instruments. But its passive cooling