In 1993, NASA launched an infrared space observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope (SST), formerly named the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF). The SST is the fourth and final of the NASA Great Observatories program.
NASA came through once again with spectacular images from deep space.
The beauty of the various images both Hubble and Spitzer have captured are magnified by the distance and space between our Earth and their locale.
Below are a sampling of Spitzer's captures.
What more can be said than NASA and Spitzer have provided eye candy to those who appreciate the vastness, wonder and mysteries of space.
For an earlier blog post containing more space images from NASA visit: NASA to the Extreme.
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