You might think that with so many telescopes at its disposal NASA and the astronomy community at large would have plenty of time to gaze at whatever they want, but space is just so big that even some of the most interesting anomalies in the sky fall through the cracks. What you see in the image above is a nebula known as IRAS 05437+2502, and it's a real weirdo. The massive cloud of newborn stars and dust is described as "little-known" by ESA simply because nobody has really had time to study it ...
You might think that with so many telescopes at its disposal NASA and the astronomy community at large would have plenty of time to gaze at whatever they want, but space is just so big that even some of the most interesting anomalies in the sky fall through the cracks. What you see in the image above is a nebula known as IRAS 05437+2502, and it's a real weirdo. The massive cloud of newborn stars and dust is described as "little-known" by ESA simply because nobody has really had time to study it ...
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