Photo Gallery: Nebulas Are the Cat’s Meow

Does it seem like a giant fuzzy astrocat is about to step on your face? Whoever first gazed at this object sure felt that way. This is the Cat’s Paw nebula, captured by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope—a large star-forming region in our Milky Way, about 4,800 light years away from Earth. Stars are born as …

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