NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an action-packed picture of the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud, a small galaxy that looks like a wispy cloud when seen from Earth.
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What's Happening:
Spitzer Goes to the Olympics
Artwork inspired by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is making an appearance at this year's Winter Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Press Release:
Centuries-Old Star Mystery Coming to a Close
For almost two centuries, humans have looked up at a bright star called Epsilon Aurigae and watched with their own eyes as it seemed to disappear into the night sky, slowly fading before coming back to life again.
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Press Release:
Spitzer to Unveil Biggest Milky Way View at Adler Planetarium
In an unveiling of truly galactic proportions, the world's largest image of our Milky Way galaxy, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, will be unveiled at the Adler Planetarium in Chicago.
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Recent News
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A Quarter Century of Infrared Astronomy
(December 24, 2009)
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Spitzer Telescope Observes Baby Brown Dwarf
(November 23, 2009)
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NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy
(November 11, 2009)
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Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes a Chaotic Planetary System
(November 04, 2009)
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Spitzer Space Telescope Mission Status
(October 30, 2009)
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Astronomers Do It Again: Find Organic Molecules Around Gas Planet
(October 20, 2009)
- NASA Space Telescope Discovers Largest Ring Around Saturn (October 06, 2009)
- NASA's Spitzer Spots Clump of Swirling Planetary Material (September 23, 2009)
- Station Fire (September 01, 2009)
- Space Telescopes Find Trigger-Happy Star Formation (August 12, 2009)
- Planet Smash-Up Sends Vaporized Rock, Hot Lava Flying (August 10, 2009)
- NASA's Spitzer Sees the Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared Eyes (August 05, 2009)
- Warmed Up and Ready to Go (July 27, 2009)
- NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-this-World Galaxy (June 23, 2009)
- Spitzer Status Update (July 10, 2009)
- Frank Low, Pioneer of Infrared Astronomy, 1933-2009 (June 29, 2009)
- Spitzer Status Update (June 23, 2009)
- Baby Stars Finally Found in Jumbled Galactic Center (June 10, 2009)
- Spitzer Status Update (June 09, 2009)
- Spitzer Status Update (May 28, 2009)
- NASA's Spitzer Begins Warm Mission (May 15, 2009)
- Spitzer Catches Star Cooking Up Comet Crystals (May 13, 2009)
- NASA's Spitzer Telescope Warms up to New Career (May 06, 2009)
- If Spitzer Could Talk: An Interview with NASA's Coolest Space Telescope (May 05, 2009)
- Streams of Stars Provide "Missing Link" in the Evolution of Galaxy Disks (April 30, 2009)
- Rocky Planets Around 'Dead' Stars (April 20, 2009)
- Cool Stars Have Different Mix of Life-Forming Chemicals (April 07, 2009)
- M33: A Close Neighbor Reveals its True Size and Splendor (April 03, 2009)
- NASA Joins 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes' (April 02, 2009)
- Hearts of Galaxies Close in for Cosmic Train Wreck (March 16, 2009)
- Galactic Dust Bunnies Found to Contain Carbon After All (March 12, 2009)
- Mission Status Report Spitzer Space Telescope (March 03, 2009)
- NASA Announces 2009 Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellows (February 25, 2009)
- NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy (February 10, 2009)
- Astronomers Observe Planet with Wild Temperature Swings (January 28, 2009)
- Dead Stars Tell Story of Planet Birth (January 05, 2009)
- New Image Shows the Power of Visual Remix (December 24, 2008)
- Planets Living on the Edge (December 16, 2008)
- Astronomers Find the Two Dimmest Stellar Bulbs (December 10, 2008)
- Rivers of Gas Flow Around Stars in New Space Image (December 08, 2008)
- Vivid View of Tycho's Supernova Remnant (December 03, 2008)
- Dusty Shock Waves Generate Planet Ingredients (November 11, 2008)
- Closest Planetary System Hosts Two Asteroid Belts (October 27, 2008)
- NASA's Spitzer Gets Sneak Peek Inside Comet Holmes (October 13, 2008)
- Splashy Portrait Helps Explain How Stars Form (October 08, 2008)
- Massive Young Stars Trigger Stellar Birth (October 07, 2008)
- Artists and Astronomers 'Observe' the Universe Together (October 07, 2008)
- Infrared Echoes give NASA's Spitzer a Supernova Flashback (October 01, 2008)
- Generations of Stars Pose for Family Portrait (August 22, 2008)
- Spitzer Podcasts Downloaded Over 7 Million Times (September 23, 2008)
- Water Hit with Young Star's Best Shot (September 18, 2008)
- The Spitzer Space Telescope and the Los Angeles Arboretum Team Up for Terrabyte (September 10, 2008)
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