Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:White such as these made by

such as these made by the LABOCA camera on APEX

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

The image features the planet’s trademark Great Red Spot and a more intense colour palette in the clouds swirling in the planet’s turbulent atmosphere than seen in previous years

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

Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen Wall Art including Frame Frame Colors:White such as these made bySixteen 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