In this artist's rendering of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in space, the background is shown in infrared light.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
More information on Spitzer can be found here:
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/