By Adam and Jack

10 YEARS OF MESMERIZING PHOTOS FROM NASA’S SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE

WARNING:• These are NOT the only pictures.• These are just the ones that I

deemed the coolest.

• We are not responsible for any deaths or severe injuries caused by viewing the dangerous level of coolness you are about to see.

CENTRAL STAR CLUSTER

The plane of the Milky Way glows in multiple colors as Spitzer stares straight into the heart of our galaxy. The bright, central star cluster looks like a ball of flaming beads and dominates the image, which spans 2,400 light-years.

OMEGA CENTAURI

Glittering like a cosmic gemstone, this globular cluster, called Omega Centauri, hovers in the southern sky nearly 17,000 light-years from Earth. Globular clusters are among the oldest objects in the universe and contain millions of stars.

ETA CARINAE STAR

Eta Carinae is a relatively nearby star, 10,000 light-years away, that is 100 times more massive than the sun. The star is blindingly bright, and blows violent amounts of energy into the dust around it. The Eta Carinae nebula normally looks like a dumbbell -- except in the infrared, where the effects of the whipping stellar winds are evident in the ragged and beaten-up clouds around the star.

SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD

We love this image because it looks as though a cosmic pair of T. rex jaws are about to gobble up some unsuspecting young stars. In reality, this is a region known as the "Wing" of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way's satellite dwarf galaxies. Here, Chandra X-Ray Observatory data are in purple, optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope are shown in red, green and blue, and infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope are shown in red.

TYCHO’S SUPERNOVA REMNANT

What looks like a cell floating in a starry petri dish is the remnant of a supernova that exploded in 1572, and was witnessed by Danish astronomer Tycho. This image is a composite of data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and Spitzer.

ZETA OPHIUCHI

A giant star zooming through space at 54,000 miles per hour creates a bowshock, ripples that are the result of billowing stellar winds colliding with the dust ahead of it. About 370 light-years away, Zeta Ophiuchi is 80,000 times brighter than the sun; it would be one of the brightest stars in the sky, but it's invisible from Earth, obscured by dust and clouds.

HELIX NEBULA

What looks like an even more terrifying version of the Eye of Sauron is actually the Helix Nebula, about 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. Here, the white dwarf star (visible in the very center), is the dead remnant of what was once a star like the sun. The bright red glow immediately around it is probably the dust kicked up by colliding comets that survived the death of their stellar host.

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