... This crowded star field towards the center of our Milky Way Galaxy turns out to be a great place to search for planets beyond our solar system. ... In fact, in this Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) mosaic the famous rings are almost invisible, seen edge-on cutting across picture center. ... Hidden Galaxy IC 342 . ... Similar in size to other large, bright spiral galaxies IC 342 is a mere 7 million light-years distant in the long-necked, northern constellation Camelopardalis. ...