Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen Wall Art Framed Canvas 800 light-years from Earth and

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

and blue to oxygen emission

newborn stars are hidden

Also known as the Southern Cross

Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen Wall Art Framed Canvas 800 light-years from Earth andSixteen 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