I love space photos. I just got back from a blustery walk. Very cold wind blowing and a crisp, starry night. Absolutely gorgeous with Orion hovering over our winter! Anyway, this photo was just released and thought I would share. A star making factory!! (Credit Reuters)

This view, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and released January 9, 2007, shows the Eagle nebula, an industrious star-making factory located 7,000 light-years away in the Serpens constellation. The image shows the region's entire network of turbulent clouds and newborn stars in infrared light. The color green denotes cooler towers and fields of dust. Since light from the Eagle nebula takes 7,000 years to reach us, this 'supernova' explosion would have appeared as an oddly bright star in our skies about 1,000 to 2,000 years ago. NO SALES NO ARCHIVES FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/N. Flagey (IAS/SSC) & A. Noriega-Crespo (SSC/Caltech)/Handout