Astronomy Picture of the Day . Mountains of Creation . ... An infrared view from the Spitzer Space Telescope , it features interstellar clouds of cold gas and dust sculpted by winds and radiation from a hot, massive star outside the picture (just above and to the right). ... NASA Official: Jay Norris. ... Publications with keywords: star formation - dust - interstellar medium . Publications with words: star formation - dust - interstellar medium . ... The Trifid Nebula in Stars and Dust . ...