New Scientist - 31 May 2014.bak

Spot the galactic coyote
“CAPTURE & name your own NASA Spitzer
space image! It’s easier than you might think.”
With this tweet, the operators of the Spitzer
Space Telescope invited people to roam around
a gigantic mosaic of the Milky Way.
Composed of more than 2 million infrared
images taken by the telescope over the last
decade, the complete panoramic image can be
viewed online using NASA’s GLIMPSE360 tool.
Released in March, it allows people to explore
more than half of our galaxy’s stars.
Twitter user Kevin Gill (@kevinmgill) discovered
the nebula pictured and tweeted it. “I was
interested in the awesomeness of the data and
the high-resolution views into the depths of space
that no one has ever seen before,” says Gill. “I had
found two other interesting things, but this one
struck me as the funniest, looking like a Minecraft
creeper just staring us down.”
The image has been likened to a fish, a raccoon
and most notably a “cute coyote’s head”. This has
landed the once-unknown region a nickname:
the Coyote Head Nebula. It’s like a Rorschach inkblot
test, say the team. What do you see
Lauren Hitchings
Photography
JPL-Caltech/NASA
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