NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope is celebrating its tenth year in space, where it has studied…
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.
Using data from Spitzer and WISE, scientists reveal in a new study that massive galaxies…
Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered a young stellar system that…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers observed gas emissions from Comet ISON, estimating that ISON…
Astronomers used the Very Large Array radio telescopes to track the motions of the gas…
New research presented at this year’s meeting of the American Astronomical Society suggests that NGC…
New images from the Galactic Legacy Infrared Mid-Plane Survey Extraordinaire project capture the birth and…
A newly published study suggests that black holes were abundant among the first stars in…
The Herschel Space telescope has discovered a massive merging of two galaxies that took place…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured this new image of Messier 94, also known as NGC…
By using a collection of authentic PAH spectra, coupled with algorithm-driven, blind-computational analyses, astrophysicists are…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers are taking a closer look at exoplanets known as…
A team of astronomers has found some of the youngest stars ever seen, giving scientists…
This NASA image of the day shows the star-forming region called W5. Generations of stars…
A newly published study details a mysterious infant star, designated LRLL 54361, that unleashes strobe-like…
Using data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers observed an unusual protostar that periodically emits…
By using the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope to simultaneously view the brown…
NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured an image of Zeta Ophiuchi, a star that is traveling…