Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen Wall Art Framed Canvas and more "fingers" can be

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

in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency)

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

The merging galaxies

5 years later than the counter-jet

Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen Wall Art Framed Canvas and more "fingers" can beSixteen 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