Cosmic Pinwheel Surrounds Distant Galaxy in Stunning NASA Photo

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - 08:00 in Astronomy & Space

The photo, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in infrared light, shows a burst of starbirth in the galaxy NGC 1291, which lies 33 million light-years from Earth and is about 12 billion years old.

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