... Star clusters, planets, and a red giant posed for this portrait of the night sky from rural Jasper County, Iowa, USA. ... In 1979 the Voyager 1 spacecraft compiled this view as it approached the gas giant Jupiter. ... Gangly Spiral Galaxy NGC 3184 . ... NGC 3184 is a large spiral galaxy with a small nucleus and long sprawling spiral arms. Although NGC 3184 contains hundreds of billions of stars, the blue color of its spiral arms comes mostly from relatively few bright young blue stars. ...