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January 12, 2007
This is the astonomy picture of the day: I didn't know that there were clouds in space. They're called "nebulae", and are generally composed of gas and dust many light years across.
The Eagle Nebula in Infrared
The image is of an open cluster of stars being formed was taken by the robotic orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope. Stars in the Eagle Nebula are born in clouds of cold hydrogen gas that reside in chaotic neighborhoods, where energy from young stars sculpts fantasy-like landscapes in the gas.
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great shot.... I have found astroblogger.blogspot.com to be an interesting reliable source for local space stuff