On Jan. 30th, 2020, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescopewas retired after sixteen years of faithful service. As one of the four NASA Great Observatories.
Scientists decided to spend the last five days before the telescope was to be decommissioned capturing breathtakingimages of the California Nebula,which were stitched into a mosaic and recently released to the public.
Located about 1,000 light-years from Earth, the California Nebula is so-named because of the way its shape – long, narrow, and bend to the right near the bottom – resembles that of the Golden State. As with all nebulas, only so much can be seen in visible light, which is the result of the nebula gas being heated by stars in the interior – in this case, the extremely massive Xi Persei
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