NASAのインスタグラム(nasa) - 5月26日 03時22分

Coyote Head Nebula Does Not Approve - When searching for the nicest nebulas in the sky it's nice when your friends help you out. This striking star formation region, mapped in infrared light by our Spitzer Space Telescope, was recently spotted by one of Spitzer's Twitter followers searching through the GLIMPSE360 panorama of our Milky Way galaxy.

One of multitudes of star-forming nebulas scattered across the sky, this area had been a bit of a "dirty" secret, tucked away behind a veil of dust that blocks our view in visible light. That obscuring veil fades away under Spitzer's infrared gaze revealing a collection of young stars bursting out of the dusty gas clouds in which they formed. Astronomers identify this area only by a collection of catalog numbers like IRAS 15541-5349.

This image is a tiny snippet of the vast 20 gigapixel GLIMPSE360 panorama released in March 2014. Visitors were encouraged to use the web viewers on the Spitzer site to search through the data and then share and name their findings on Twitter. This region was tweeted by kevinmgill, who tagged it "Nebula Does Not Approve." Image Credit: NASA

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