... Early April brought some of the most intense auroral storms this decade. ... The Near Infrared Sky . ... Was this picture taken from outside our Galaxy? ... Three major sources contribute to the far-infrared sky: our Solar System, our Galaxy, and our Universe. The above recently released image, in representative colors, is the highest resolution projection yet created of the entire far-infrared sky (60 - 240 microns) created from years of observations by the now-defunct robot spacecraft COBE. ...