Galaxy IC 342 Wall Art including Frame Sizes:MEDIUM (16x16) including the long dust trails

including the long dust trails connected to it

Megeath (University of Toledo)

EDT on Saturday

The head is almost transparent around the edges at near-infrared wavelengths

located 7500 light-years away in the southern constellation of Carina

Galaxy IC 342 Wall Art including Frame Sizes:MEDIUM (16x16) including the long dust trailsLooking like a spider's web swirled into a spiral, the galaxy IC 342 presents its delicate pattern of dust in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Seen in infrared light, the faint starlight gives way to the glowing bright patterns of dust found throughout the galaxy's disk. At a distance of about 10 million light years, IC 342 is relatively close by galaxy standards, however our vantage point places it directly behind the disk of our own