Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen Wall Art Framed Canvas in cooperation with ESA (European

in cooperation with ESA (European Space Agency)

and more "fingers" can be seen nearly face-on

The merging galaxies

and blue to oxygen emission

Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen Wall Art Framed Canvas in cooperation with ESA (EuropeanSixteen 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