Coinciding with the arrival of spring and insects buzzing, flying and crawling everywhere, NASA has found a butterfly in the last place you'd think — space. Much to the dismay of entomologists everywhere, it's not a new type of butterfly, but rather a pair of massive gas clouds 1,400 light-years from the Sun. Known as Westerhout 40 (W40), the formation is a nebula, or "a giant cloud of gas and dust in space where new stars may form," according to a NASA JPL blog post. “Inside giant clouds of gas and dust in space, the force of gravity pulls material together into dense clumps. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPNASA said the stunning image came from its Spitzer Space Telescope and is a composite of four individual photos taken using the infrared camera of the space telescope.

Source: Fox News March 28, 2019 16:03 UTC