A half-dozen spiral galaxies spin through the cosmos in this gallery of recent images from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile. The images were snapped in infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye. Infrared reveals more of the dust and gas in the galaxies, providing more details of their structure. [ESO/P. Grosbøl]
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