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

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

and blue to oxygen emission

Also known as the Southern Cross

it is fun to use your imagination when looking at images of nebulae

The gaseous envelope formed as the expanding blast wave and ejected material from a supernova tore through the nearby interstellar medium

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