The Infrared Universe Images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope A Dying Star Six hundred and fifty light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, a dead star about the size of Earth is refusing to fade away peacefully. In this false-color image, NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes have teamed up to capture the complex structure of the object, called the Helix nebula, in unprecedented detail. + Full image and caption 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8   Jet Propulsion Laboratory    California Institute of Technology   Spitzer Space Telescope