Spitzer

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Launched in 2003, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope was the fourth and final addition to NASA’s Great Observatory program. Spitzer’s mission was to become NASA’s premier infrared light observatory, offering astronomers the chance to study the universe in this critical part of the electromagnetic spectrum of light with unprecedented clarity and sensitivity.Read MoreCircling the sun in its Earth-trailing orbit, Spitzer provided a remote platform for studying our own Solar System. Its sensitive infrared detectors were well-suited to identify and characterize asteroids, image the dusty debris surrounding comments, and even discover Saturn’s largest ring.Read MoreOne of Spitzer’s design goals was to enable astronomers to study the infrared glow of dust and debris orbiting distant stars. This is the source material for building new planets, and it can provide the tell-tale sign of asteroid belts in systems in which planets have already formed.Read More May 27th, 2004Raw Ingredients for Life Detected in Planetary Construction Zones December 9th, 2004Spitzer and Hubble Capture Evolving Planetary Systems October 18th, 2004Astronomers Discover Planet Building Is Big Mess January 10th, 2005Spitzer Sees Dusty Aftermath of Pluto-Sized Collision December 20th, 2005Partial Ingredients for DNA and Protein Found Around Star April 5th, 2006NASA's Spitzer Finds Hints of Planet Birth Around Dead Star July 24th, 2006Planet-Forming Disks Might Put the Brakes on Stars January 8th, 2007Gas Giants Form Quickly February 17th, 2008Many, Perhaps Most, Nearby Sun-Like Stars May Form Rocky PlanetsDiscovering and studying planets that orbit stars other than our sun have become one of the most active areas of astronomy in the past decades. When Spitzer launched in 2003 this was not one of its intended science objectives, but innovations by astronomers and engineers during its mission improved its precision and enabled it to become a critical tool for exoplanet work.Read More January 22nd, 2021The 7 Rocky TRAPPIST-1 Planets May Be Made of Similar Stuff March 22nd, 2005NASA's Spitzer Marks Beginning of New Age of Planetary Science February 21st, 2007NASA's Spitzer First To Crack Open Light of Faraway Worlds February 22nd, 2017NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star March 29th, 2007NASA Telescope Finds Planets Thrive Around Stellar Twins May 9th, 2007NASA Finds Extremely Hot Planet, Makes First Exoplanet Weather Map May 8th, 2012NASA's Spitzer Sees The Light of Alien 'Super Earth' April 14th, 2015NASA's Spitzer Spots Planet Deep Within Our Galaxy January 22nd, 2018A ‘hot Jupiter’ with unusual windsStars are born in vast clouds of gas and dust that pulled together through the force of gravity. But much of that process is obscured behind thick clouds of dust that visible light telescopes cannot penetrate. Spitzer’s infrared detectors were designed to see deeply into these star-forming regions, and reveal these dark dust clouds as glowing nebulae.Read More July 22nd, 2010NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs in Space for First Time November 10th, 2016NASA Space Telescopes Pinpoint Elusive Brown Dwarf June 3rd, 2008Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go Missing January 8th, 2013NASA, ESA Telescopes Find Evidence For Asteroid Belt Around Vega December 20th, 200710,000 Earths' Worth of Fresh Dust Found Near Star Explosion January 7th, 2014Stormy Stars? NASA's Spitzer Probes Weather on Brown Dwarfs May 22nd, 2006Spitzer Reveals Jets Around a Dead Star October 1st, 2008Infrared Echoes give NASA's Spitzer a Supernova Flashback February 29th, 2012Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and DustWe live within the Milky Way galaxy, a flattened disk of hundreds of billions of other stars, but the Milky Way is but one of trillions of galaxies that fill the observable universe. Spitzer’s infrared vision has helped us to more completely understand these immense objects that come in many shapes and sizes.Read More November 18th, 2010Spitzer Reveals a Buried Explosion Sparked by a Galactic Train Wreck June 1st, 2004Spitzer Spies Parallelogram-Shaped Galactic Meal October 13th, 2005Lady in Red: Andromeda Galaxy Shines in Spitzer's Eyes March 16th, 2006Galaxy on Fire! NASA's Spitzer Reveals Stellar Smoke July 21st, 2008Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy January 5th, 2010Galaxy Exposes its Dusty Inner Workings in New Spitzer Image April 25th, 2019The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black Hole April 24th, 2012NASA'S Spitzer Finds Galaxy with Split Personality April 24th, 2006Great Observatories Present Rainbow of a GalaxyIn our expanding universe, to look at increasingly distant objects is also like looking back in time to see things as they were billions of years ago. The very expansion of space expands this ancient light, shifting what was once visible to our eyes ever farther into the infrared spectrum. Spitzer was built to give us a way to capture this light from galaxies that formed and grew when the universe was young.Read More April 28th, 2020Spitzer Telescope Reveals the Precise Timing of a Black Hole Dance December 3rd, 2015NASA Space Telescopes See Magnified Image of Faintest Galaxy from Early Universe May 28th, 2007Spitzer Nets Thousands of Galaxies in a Giant Cluster October 16th, 2017NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event May 5th, 2015Astronomers Set a New Galaxy Distance Record June 14th, 2018Astronomers See Distant Eruption as Black Hole Destroys Star July 28th, 2005Spitzer Finds Life Components in Young Universe October 3rd, 2012NASA's Infrared Observatory Measures Expansion Of Universe March 17th, 2010NASA's Spitzer Unearths Primitive Black HolesBrown dwarfs, sometimes known as “failed stars,” can spin at upwards of 200,000 mph, but there may be a limit to how fast they can go. For the first time, a wayward comet-like object has been spotted near the family of ancient asteroids.Precise measurements reveal that the exoplanets have remarkably similar densities, which provides clues about their composition. April 7th, 2021A Swiftly Rotating Brown Dwarf (Illustration) January 28th, 2021Measuring the Masses and Diameters of the TRAPPIST-1 Planets April 12th, 2007The Seven Sisters (Pleiades) Pose for Spitzer and for You! August 27th, 2019Galaxy M81 in Infrared, Revisited December 18th, 2012Massive Star Makes Waves May 26th, 2011Stars Adorn Orion's Sword March 18th, 2011Stars Gather in 'Downtown' Milky Way December 22nd, 2005NGC 2264 in the Infrared February 12th, 2007Comets Kick Up Dust in Helix Nebula March 16th, 2006Spitzer Unveils a Cosmic Cigar : Messier 82 December 18th, 2003Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 January 9th, 2007Cosmic Epic Unfolds in Infrared: The Eagle Nebula May 9th, 2007First Map of an Exoplanet AtmosphereThe red dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 is home to the largest group of roughly Earth-size planets ever found in a single stellar system. Located about 40 light-years away, these seven rocky siblings provide an example of the tremendous variety of planetary systems that likely fill the universe.A zoomable panorama from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows us our galaxy's plane all the way around us in infrared light.On January 30th 2020, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope completed its mission. This page tells its story, showcases new science and highlights its most outstanding achievements during the past 16 years in space.Add some Spitzer style to your video conference background with these videos and images. Click on a thumbnail to view a larger version, and then save the file to your computer. These images have been optimized to work with Zoom virtual backgrounds.NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope concluded its 16+ year mission on January 30th, 2020. In recognition of its incredible scientific achievements the “Exoplanet Excursions” VR experience has been updated to include new modules describing the telescope that has enabled so much exoplanet research and discovery.

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