Topic: Space Pictures This Week: Flaming Runaway, Moon Avalanche

[sam]

A galactic collision sparked a powerful "explosion" of star formation that until now had been hidden from view by a cloak of dense gases, as seen in a NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope picture released last week.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/11/photogalleries/101124-best-space-pictures-comet-science-sun-moon-stars-mars-aurora-121/?now=2010-11-24-00:01

[Clive]

Stunning photos Sam.  I just can't get over the clarity they are achieving these days.  But the article writers should be sacked for "Like a hot-headed teenager, the star AE Aurigae is racing away from its birthplace after getting into a "fight" with its neighbors, as seen in a new picture from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, released Tuesday.     

[sam]