Thin, red veins of energized gas mark the location of one of the larger supernova…
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.
Launched nearly 15 years ago on August 25, 2003, the Spitzer Space Telescope is the…
For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving…
The nuclei of most galaxies host supermassive black holes with millions or even billions of…
NASA surprised by how much water found in atmosphere of WASP-39b Using Hubble and Spitzer…
In the year since NASA announced the seven Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, scientists…
The South Pole Telescope (SPT) is a 10-meter-diameter telescope in the Antarctic that has been…
Data from NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have been combined to show this image…
The path of a light beam will be bent by the presence of mass, an…
Spitzer reveals that super-Earth 55 Cancri e likely has an atmosphere whose ingredients could be…
New Research reveals that giant exoplanets with long-period orbits are more likely to be found…
Using NASA’s Spitzer and Swift missions, as well as the Belgian AstroLAB IRIS observatory, astronomers…
Using the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, astronomers have discovered the first unambiguous signs of…
Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass safely by Earth on September 1, 2017,…
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers reveal that the varying glow of brown…
Using data from the Large Binocular Telescope and NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, astronomers…
Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has identified a regular pattern in…
By combining data from several telescopes, astronomers created this captivating new image of the Crab…