New Spitzer Image: Galactic Wheel of Life Shines in Infrared
A newly released image from the Spitzer Space Telescope shows galaxy NGC 1291, which is located about 33 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus….
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Spitzer Space Telescope Views Collision Between Large Asteroids
Data from the Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed a huge amount of fresh dust around NGC 2547-ID8, leaving scientists to believe that two large asteroids…
Astronomers Discover a Massive Galaxy in Its Core Formation Phase
By combining observations from several telescopes, astronomers have viewed a massive galaxy in its core formation phase three billion years after the Big Bang. Astronomers…
The Destructive Results of a Mighty Supernova Explosion
This composite image shows the remnant of a supernova that would have been witnessed on Earth 3,700 years ago. This image from the Chandra X-Ray…
Most Precise Measurement Ever of the Radius of a Planet Outside Our Solar System
Scientists have made the most precise measurement ever of the radius of a planet outside our solar system, confirming Kepler-93b as a “super-Earth” that is…
Chandra Reveals a New Composite Image of NGC 4258
This new composite image of NGC 4258 shows X-rays from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory in blue, radio data from the NSF’s Karl Jansky Very Large…
Spitzer Measures an Asteroid Candidate for NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission
Using infrared data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have measured the size of an asteroid candidate (near-Earth asteroid 2011 MD) for NASA’s Asteroid Redirect…
Spitzer Discovers a Rare Supernova Where a Dead Star “Fed” Off an Aging Star
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers examined a rare example of Type Ia explosion in which a dead star “fed” off an aging…
Spitzer Views the Serpens Cloud Core
This new image from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Two Micron All Sky Survey takes a closer look at the Serpens Cloud Core, a…
Newly Discovered Cosmic Clumps Cast the Darkest Shadows Ever Recorded
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered cosmic clumps within a huge cosmic cloud of gas and dust that cast the deepest…
Spitzer Reveals Clusters of Massive New Stars
Astronomers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics use Spitzer observations to study the massive star-forming regions W5-east, S235, S252, S254-S258, and NGC7538, revealing clusters of…
A New View of Centaurus A
This new composite image of Centaurus A was created with X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, and…
Spitzer and WISE Discover Coldest Known Brown Dwarf
NASA’s WISE and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered the coldest known brown dwarf, which is located 7.2 light-years away. NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)…
Amateur Astronomers Combine Data to Reveal New Images of Galaxies
Amateur astronomers and astrophotographers have combined their optical data with the data from some of the world’s most sophisticated space telescopes to reveal new images…
Spitzer Views Star-Forming Region ON2
This newly released image combines X-ray coverage from ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory with an infrared view from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope to show the star-forming…
Spitzer Images Create 360-Degree View of the Milky Way
Using more than 2 million infrared snapshots taken over the past 10 years by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers created a new 360-degree mosaic of…
New Models Better Describe How Planet-Forming Material Around Stars is Stirred Up
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have developed a new theory explaining the mystery of planet-forming disks that circle the young stars. Astronomers…
New Spitzer Image of the Supernova in M82
This newly released Spitzer image shows the supernova in galaxy M82, the closest supernova of its kind to be observed in the last few decades….