NASA’s TESS mission discovered three large exoplanets orbiting a young, nearby star, offering valuable insight…
Browsing: Spitzer Space Telescope
The Spitzer Space Telescope was a pioneering observatory launched by NASA in 2003 to explore the universe in infrared light. By detecting heat emissions rather than visible light, Spitzer unveiled hidden structures in galaxies, revealed the birthplaces of stars and planets, and provided new views of distant exoplanets and cosmic dust. Operating far beyond the capabilities of ground-based telescopes, it offered critical insights into phenomena that are otherwise obscured by interstellar clouds. Even after its mission ended in 2020, Spitzer’s discoveries continue to shape our understanding of the cosmos and inform new generations of astronomical research.
Scientists tapped into the worldwide network of volunteers using Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 to map…
Spitzer’s infrared image unveils the Snowflake Cluster, where newborn stars align in a spoke-like pattern.…
A composite image from Hubble and Spitzer captures the Orion Nebula, revealing ionized gases and…
The Blue Ring Nebula, which perplexed scientists for over a decade, appears to be the…
A team led by an astronomer from the University of Kansas has crunched data from…
The violent events leading up to the death of a star would likely drive away…
The most massive stars in the universe are born inside cosmic clouds of gas and…
The newly discovered planet’s parent star is still encircled by the disk of material from…
The recently retired infrared observatory was the only telescope to spot a far-off flash of…
The image composite is just one of hundreds that the infrared observatory produced during its…
Astronomers have used the National Science Foundation’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and…
Not quite planets and not quite stars, brown dwarfs are cosmic in-betweeners. Learning about their…
The path of a light beam is bent by the presence of mass, as explained…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Mission of Astronomical Discovery For more than 16 years, the…
In the scorching atmosphere of exoplanet KELT-9b, even molecules are torn to shreds. Massive gas…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star’s…
Movie Dissects the Nebula’s Intricate Nested Structure In the year 1054 AD, Chinese sky watchers…