Cool Cosmos: Orbiting telescope views infrared universe

Astronomers this week unveiled some really cool images–along with some positively chilling spectra. The new images include pictures of a hidden stellar nursery and the first spectra ever taken of organic material in a remote galaxy. An infrared observatory, the Spitzer Space Telescope, had gathered the data since its launch last August.

SEEING (INFRA)RED. False-color, infrared view of a glowing stellar nursery in the Elephant’s Trunk nebula.