Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:White The image shows a region

The image shows a region of space about 30 light-years across

NGC 1398’s graceful spiral arms stem from a straight bar

Glimpses below the clouds reveal volcanoes and deformed mountains

Hubble photographed a slight reddish haze over the northern hemisphere in this color composite

NGC 6302 lies between 2

Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:White The image shows a regionSixteen 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