NASA's Spitzer just spotted a galaxy perfectly aligned with Earth

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is capable of capturing some truly stunning snapshots of distant features in space, and usually, when we see images of vast spiral galaxies we get to see them face-first. A new photo shot by Spitzer of a distant galaxy called NGC 5866 is much different, but no less interesting. We don't really get to choose the angle at which we see distant galaxies, so astronomers can only work with what they're given. In this case, galaxy NGC 5866 is positioned so that we're seei...