Located 33 light-years away, exoplanet candidate UCF-1.01 was discovered when astronomers studying exoplanet GJ 436b noticed slight dips in the amount of infrared light streaming…
Astronomers have discovered an arc of light behind a galaxy cluster that is 5 to 10 times larger than other clusters from that early of…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered patterns of light that appear to be from the first stars and galaxies that formed in the…
In an effort to further piece cosmic evolution together, astronomers have been using a combination of modern telescopes and infrared and submillimeter techniques. Using the…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that the Sombrero galaxy, also known as NGC 4594, is one of the first known galaxies to exhibit dual characteristics,…
A rare cosmic zoom lens, which uses the gravity of a large mass to magnify light from distant objects, has allowed a team of US…
While using infrared spectra from the Spitzer Space Telescope to analyze the dust in several young brown dwarf disks, scientists discovered that the cold outer…
While looking over data from the Spitzer Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire (GLIMPSE) and Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer Galactic (MIPSGAL) surveys, volunteers have…
European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Observatory and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have provided researchers with new images of the Orion nebula that revealed a host…
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers discovered buckyballs in a solid form around a pair of stars called “XX Ophiuchi,” 6,500 light-years from…
The largest galaxy cluster in the distant universe has been found and nicknamed “El Gordo,” which is much easier to say than the official name…
