Spitzer Views Runaway Star Kappa Cassiopeiae
This newly released Spitzer image shows runaway star Kappa Cassiopeiae, a hot supergiant moving at around 2.5 million mph relative to its neighbors (1,100 kilometers…
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Astronomers Discover a Drastic Chemical Change Occurring in Birth of a Planetary System
Astronomers have discovered an unexpected chemical change in the transition zone between the infalling envelope and the gas disk around young protostar L1527. The international…
Hubble Views Abell2744 Y1, One of the Most Distant Known Galaxies
Using the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, astronomers discovered one of the most distant galaxies known — Abell2744 Y1. NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes…
Spitzer Views the Orion Nebula
Using infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers created a new false-color image of the Orion Nebula. Few cosmic vistas excite the imagination…
Spitzer Discovers Turbulent Weather on Brown Dwarfs
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that many brown dwarfs have turbulent weather similar to Jupiter’s “Great Red Spot.” Swirling, stormy clouds may…
Spitzer Measures the Physical Properties of NEO 2009BD
Using the Spitzer Space Telescope, a new study measures the physical properties of NEO 2009BD. Asteroids (or comets) whose orbits bring them close to the…
Massive Stars Map the Structure of the Milky Way
By using the distribution of young massive stars to probe the structure of the Milky Way, astronomers have reaffirmed that our galaxy has four spiral…
New Spitzer Study Analyzes the Era of Star Formation in Galaxy Clusters
By observing the last major growth spurt of galaxy clusters, which happened billions of years ago, a newly published Spitzer study examines the rise and…
3D Viewer Offers a New Look at Cassiopeia A
Using data from Chandra, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, and ground-based facilities, scientists have created new three-dimensional (3D) viewer that will allow users to see the…
New Data Reveals Two Galaxies Masquerading as One
New detailed radio data has revealed that what scientists thought was spiral galaxy UGC 10288 is actually two galaxies, one lying behind the other. What…
Spitzer and ALMA Reveal Stellar Birth
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, a newly published study reveals a new look at stellar birth. It’s…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope Views Dying Stars
Three newly released images from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope show the remains of dying stars called planetary nebulas. In the spirit of Halloween, scientists are…
NASA to Look Deeper Into the Universe than Ever Before
NASA researchers are teaming up in the new collaborative program called The Frontier Fields to look deeper into the universe than ever before, working together…
Astronomers Create First Cloud Map of a Planet Beyond Our Solar System
Astronomers used data from NASA’s Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes to produce a very low-resolution ‘map’ of the exoplanet Kepler-7b. Scientists using data from NASA’s…
How NASA Engineers Revamped Spitzer to Probe Exoplanets
This short narrative looks back on how NASA engineers revamped the Spitzer Space Telescope to probe exoplanets. Now approaching its 10th anniversary, NASA’s Spitzer Space…
Spitzer Reveals That Asteroid Don Quixote is a Comet
Data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope helped astronomers discover that the large asteroid called Don Quixote is in fact a comet. For 30 years, a…
Spitzer Space Telescope Celebrates 10 Years in Space
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope is celebrating its tenth year in space, where it has studied comets and asteroids, scrutinized planets and galaxies, and even discovered…
Contrary to Previous Theories, Massive Galaxies Slow Their Growth Over Time
Using data from Spitzer and WISE, scientists reveal in a new study that massive galaxies appear to slow their growth over time, feeding less and…