10 years of the Spitzer Space Telescope

On 25 August 2013, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope marked its tenth year in orbit.

In that time the revolutionary infrared observatory has beamed back hundreds of images of distant nebulae, galaxies and the farthest reaches of our own Milky Way.

See a selection of these amazing celestial sights in the gallery above.

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