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Featured Images
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02-01-2012 Remnant of an Explosion With a Powerful Kick? |
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12-12-2011 Dragonfish Coming At You in Infrared |
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09-28-2011 Living the High Life |
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09-14-2011 Into the Depths of the Lagoon Nebula |
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06-29-2011 Making a Spectacle of Star Formation in Orion |
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05-24-2011 New View of the Great Nebula in Carina |
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03-18-2011 Stars Gather in 'Downtown' Milky Way |
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03-03-2011 Sunflower Galaxy Glows with Infrared Light |
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03-03-2011 Spitzer's Sunflower |
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02-10-2011 An Extended Stellar Family |
Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid form in space. Prior to this discovery, the microscopic carbon spheres had been found only in gas form in the cosmos.
The Art Behind the Astro Pictures: Lecture Online
01.18.12
If you've ever been curious how one goes from datasets taken by Spitzer and other telescopes to the colorful imagery seen on the gallery here, you can learn more about it online. Dr. Robert Hurt, the visualization scientist for Spitzer delivered a lecture on "The Art of Image Processing" in Pasadena, CA on January 19th, and the full talk can now be viewed online.
