Swirling Landscape of Stars Size:16" x 16" Blimp over police games

Blimp over police games

Photographed by Russell Lee in February 1939

showing a man suspended above a city street

and mission specialists Dale Gardner

California under subcontract to the Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation

Swirling Landscape of Stars Size:16" x 16" Blimp over police gamesThis 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