Astronomy Picture of the Day [1]Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2019 September 4 [2]See Explanation. Clicking on the picture will download the highest resolution version available. The Spider Nebula in Infrared Image Credit: [3]NASA, [4]JPL-Caltech, [5]Spitzer Space Telescope, [6]2MASS Explanation: Will the spider ever catch the fly? Not if both are large [7]emission nebulas toward the constellation of the Charioteer ([8]Auriga). The [9]spider-shaped gas cloud on the left is actually an emission nebula labelled [10]IC 417, while the smaller fly-shaped cloud on the right is dubbed [11]NGC 1931 and is both an emission nebula and a [12]reflection nebula. About 10,000 [13]light-years distant, both nebulas harbor young, open [14]star clusters. For scale, the more compact [15]NGC 1931 (Fly) is about 10 light-years across. The [16]featured picture in scientifically-assigned, [17]infrared colors combines images from the [18]Spitzer Space Telescope and the [19]Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS). [20]Spitzer is celebrating its 16th year orbiting the Sun near the [21]Earth. APOD in other languages: [22]Arabic, [23]Catalan, [24]Chinese (Beijing), [25]Chinese (Taiwan), [26]Croatian, [27]Czech, [28]Dutch, [29]Farsi, [30]French, [31]French, [32]German, [33]Hebrew, [34]Indonesian, [35]Japanese, [36]Korean, [37]Montenegrin, [38]Polish, [39]Russian, [40]Serbian, [41]Slovenian, [42]Spanish and [43]Ukrainian Tomorrow's picture: open space __________________________________________________________________ [44]< | [45]Archive | [46]Submissions | [47]Index | [48]Search | [49]Calendar | [50]RSS | [51]Education | [52]About APOD | [53]Discuss | [54]> __________________________________________________________________ Authors & editors: [55]Robert Nemiroff ([56]MTU) & [57]Jerry Bonnell ([58]UMCP) NASA Official: Phillip Newman [59]Specific rights apply. [60]NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important Notices A service of: [61]ASD at [62]NASA / [63]GSFC & [64]Michigan Tech. U. References 1. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 2. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1909/SpiderFly_Spitzer2Mass_4165.jpg 3. https://www.nasa.gov/ 4. https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ 5. http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/ 6. https://old.ipac.caltech.edu/2mass/ 7. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/emission_nebulae.html 8. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auriga_(constellation) 9. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spider_and_the_Fly_(poem) 10. https://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im1166.html 11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_1931 12. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/reflection_nebulae.html 13. https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/Numbers/Math/Mathematical_Thinking/how_long_is_a_light_year.htm 14. http://asterisk.apod.com/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=18009 15. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap151201.html 16. https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA20357 17. https://science.nasa.gov/ems/07_infraredwaves 18. http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/mission/32-The-Mission 19. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap100530.html 20. http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/2195-ssc2019-15-Sixteen-Images-for-Spitzer-s-Sweet-16 21. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/earth/overview/ 22. http://www.apodar.com/ 23. http://www.apod.cat/ 24. http://www.bjp.org.cn/apod/today.html 25. http://sprite.phys.ncku.edu.tw/astrolab/mirrors/apod/apod.html 26. http://www.apod.rs/Croatia.html 27. http://www.astro.cz/apod/ 28. http://www.apod.nl/ 29. http://www.skypix.org/apod/ 30. http://www.cidehom.com/apod.php 31. https://www.apod.tv/ 32. http://www.starobserver.org/ 33. http://www.astronomia2009.org.il/info/apod/apod.htm 34. http://apod.infoastronomy.org/ 35. http://home.u05.itscom.net/apodjpn/apodj/apodj0.htm 36. http://wouldyoulike.org/apod/ 37. http://www.apod.rs/Montenegro.html 38. http://apod.pl/apod/ 39. http://www.astronet.ru/db/apod.html 40. http://www.apod.rs/ 41. http://apod.fmf.uni-lj.si/ 42. http://observatorio.info/ 43. http://astronomy.pp.ua/ 44. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190903.html 45. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html 46. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/apsubmit2015.html 47. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html 48. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/apod/apod_search 49. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/calendar/allyears.html 50. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod.rss 51. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/edlinks.html 52. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html 53. http://asterisk.apod.com/discuss_apod.php?date=190904 54. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190905.html 55. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/faculty/Nemiroff.html 56. http://www.phy.mtu.edu/ 57. https://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/htmltest/jbonnell/www/bonnell.html 58. http://www.astro.umd.edu/ 59. https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/lib/about_apod.html#srapply 60. https://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/HP_Privacy.html 61. https://astrophysics.gsfc.nasa.gov/ 62. https://www.nasa.gov/ 63. https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/ 64. http://www.mtu.edu/