Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:White Glimpses below the clouds reveal

Glimpses below the clouds reveal volcanoes and deformed mountains

In most images of the LMC the colour is completely different to that seen here

such as these made by the LABOCA camera on APEX

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

Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:White Glimpses below the clouds revealSixteen 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