By @nasa “Happy Valentine’s Day! Here’s #NASALove to celebrate — like this cosmic rose from the Spitzer Space Telescope. Spitzer captured in 2004 with its infrared eyes a pink and green rose-like picture of a cluster of newborn stars known as a nebula. “The picture is more than just pretty,” said Dr. Thomas Megeath, principal investigator for the latest observations and an astronomer at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass. “It helps us understand how stars form in the crowded environments of stellar nurseries.” Located 3,330 light-years away in the constellation Cepheus and spanning 10 light-years across, the rosebud-shaped nebula, numbered NGC 7129, is home to some 130 young stars. Our own Sun is believed to have grown up in a similar family setting. Image credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA #valentines #valentinesday #valentine #rose #cosmicrose #love #spitzer #nebula #nasa #space” via @PhotoRepost_app
