8. “false-color image” of infrared emission from interstellar cloud of gas and dust (made from space) with magnetic field map from South Pole “false-color image” of infrared emission from interstellar cloud of gas and dust (made from space) with magnetic field map from South Pole the Carina Nebula is an example of a “stellar nursery”: an interstellar cloud where new stars are being formed P med = 2.0 % Dec. offset (degrees)

9. The Balloon-borne Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (BLAST)

10. The Universe at 300,000 yrs old: (false-color image of microwaves emanating from the entire sky) nothing but gas – no dust; no stars; no life