Look at the place where stars are actively being born. It looks like Godzilla

Caltech astronomer Robert Hurt is responsible for the vast majority

publicly available images createdbased on Spitzer data from the launch of the observatory in 2003. He noticed Godzilla in an image of an active star forming region and made a funny collage. It is published on the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory website.

Photo: NASA. Collage: "Hi-tech"

Like clouds on Earth, clouds of gasand dust in space can sometimes resemble familiar objects or even popular movie creatures. As Hurt said, he didn’t specifically look for the silhouettes of the monster in the telescope images. “I just happened to look at an area of ​​the sky that I had looked at many times before, but I had never zoomed in on. Sometimes framing changes everything. I saw eyes and a mouth that screamed, “This is Godzilla,” says the astronomer.

In fact, the photo showsnebula - a cloud of gas and dust in space - photographed by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Over billions of years, countless stars have formed in this place. When viewed in visible light, which human eyes can discern, this area is almost completely hidden by dust. But infrared light can penetrate clouds, revealing hidden areas like this.

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