Scientific instruments have opened up sensory domains far beyond the constraints of biological perception. Technology has extended our phenotype enormously and has pushed the boundaries of what can be known...
Spitzer Space Telescope image of the Large Magellanic Cloud. LMC is a dwarf satellite galaxy of our own Milky Way. It is about 160,000 light-years from Earth. The infrared image is a mosaic of 300,000 individual tiles. The composite shows a third of entire galaxy. The colors represent dust and stars in various stages of their lifecycle.
