Swirling Landscape of Stars Size:18" x 24" Snowflake 001

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Swirling Landscape of Stars Size:18" x 24" Snowflake 001This swirling landscape of stars is known as the North America Nebula. In visible light, the region resembles North America, but in this image infrared view from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the continent disappears. Where did the continent go? The reason you don't see it in Spitzer's view has to do, in part, with the fact that infrared light can penetrate dust whereas visible light cannot. Dusty, dark clouds in the visible image become transparent

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