Celebrate Spitzer’s 16th birthday with these 16 beautiful space images

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Celebrate Spitzer’s 16th birthday with these 16 beautiful space images

By  Georgina Torbet    August 31, 2019 8:37AM PST  


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The North America nebula

The Spitzer Telescope launched 16 years ago, in August 2003. To celebrate its sweet 16, NASA has shared 16 of the most beautiful space images captured by the infrared telescope.

In the image above, blue hues represent visible light, while red and green represent infrared light.



NASA/JPL-Caltech

The giant star Zeta Ophiuchi

Zeta Ophiuchi is an enormous star which creates epic solar winds. The winds are so strong that they create shock waves, which you can see in reddish-orange, radiating out from the star.

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