Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen Wall Art Framed Canvas The gaseous envelope formed as

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

and blue to oxygen emission

newborn stars are hidden

The merging galaxies

in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency)

Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen Wall Art Framed Canvas The gaseous envelope formed asSixteen 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