The Pinwheel galaxy, 27 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major, otherwise known as Messier 101, is gilded by bright reddish edges in this new infrared image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. M101 is nearly twice the size of the Milky Way with huge and extremely bright H II regions, which usually accompany enormous clouds of high density molecular hydrogen gas contracting under their own gravitational force where stars form.  Research from Spitzer has revealed that [...]

Comet Siding Spring streaks across the sky like a cosmic superman this new infrared image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE taken on Jan. 10, 2010.The comet, also known as C/2007 Q3, was discovered in 2007 by observers in Australia. In this view, longer wavelengths of infrared light are red and shorter wavelengths are blue Continued here: Super Voyager from the Oort Cloud

Comet Siding Spring streaks across the sky like a cosmic superman this new infrared image from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE taken on Jan. 10, 2010.The comet, also known as C/2007 Q3, was discovered in 2007 by observers in Australia. In this view, longer wavelengths of infrared light are red and shorter wavelengths are blue. Read the rest here:  Super Voyager from the Oort Cloud

“Such stunning cosmic coincidences reveal so much about nature.” ~ Leonidas Moustakas, Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring pattern is caused by the complex bending of light from two distant galaxies strung directly behind a foreground massive galaxy, like three beads on a string. Read more: "Einstein’s [...]

“Such stunning cosmic coincidences reveal so much about nature.” ~ Leonidas Moustakas, Jet Propulsion Laboratory The Hubble Space Telescope has revealed a never-before-seen optical alignment in space: a pair of glowing rings, one nestled inside the other like a bull's-eye pattern. The double-ring pattern is caused by the complex bending of light from two distant galaxies strung directly behind a foreground massive galaxy, like three beads on a string See the rest here:  Einstein’s [...]