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ssc2020-08 01.30.20 NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Mission of Astronomical Discovery After more than 16 years studying the universe in infrared light, revealing new wonders in our solar system, our gala... read more	ssc2020-06 01.27.20 Tarantula Nebula Spins Web of Mystery in Spitzer Image The Tarantula Nebula, seen in this image by the Spitzer Space Telescope, was one of the first targets studied by the ... read more
ssc2020-04 01.24.20 For Hottest Planet, a Major Meltdown, Study Shows In the scorching atmosphere of exoplanet KELT-9b, even molecules are torn to shreds. read more	ssc2020-05 01.24.20 Operate a NASA Great Observatory With New VR Experience A new virtual reality experience lets users get a taste of what it's like to explore the cosmos with the Spitzer Spac... read more
ssc2020-03 01.22.20 NASA Celebrates the Legacy of the Spitzer Space Telescope NASA is celebrating the legacy of one of its Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope, which has studied the ... read more	ssc2020-02 01.15.20 NASA Pays Tribute, Says Goodbye to One of Agency’s Great Observatories NASA will host a live program at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 22, to celebrate the far-reaching legacy of the agency’s ... read more
ssc2020-01 01.07.20 NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star's habitable zone,... read more	ssc2019-18 12.19.19 Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Perseus Molecular Cloud, a massive collection of gas and dus... read more
ssc2019-17 10.30.19 Spitzer Telescope Spots a Ghoulish Gourd Look closer to see why scientists studying this distant cloud of dust and gas think it resembles a cosmic jack-o'-lan... read more	ssc2019-16 09.30.19 Spitzer Spots a Starry Region Bursting With Bubbles This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are infl... read more
ssc2019-15 08.27.19 Sixteen Images for Spitzer's Sweet 16 NASA launched its Spitzer Space Telescope into orbit around the Sun on Aug. 25, 2003. Since then, the observatory has... read more	ssc2019-14 08.19.19 NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a ... read more
ssc2019-13 08.07.19 NASA's Spitzer Spies a Perfectly Sideways Galaxy It might look like a lightsaber floating in space, but the red beam in the middle of this image is actually a galaxy ... read more	ssc2019-12 07.02.19 Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer Two NASA space telescopes have teamed up to identify, for the first time, the detailed chemical "fingerprint" of a pl... read more
ssc2019-11 06.26.19 A Whirlpool 'Warhol' from NASA's Spitzer Telescope Unlike Andy Warhol's famous silkscreen grids of repeating images rendered in different colors, the varying hues of th... read more	ssc2019-10 06.13.19 How NASA's Spitzer Has Stayed Alive for So Long After nearly 16 years of exploring the cosmos in infrared light, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope will be switched off ... read more
ssc2019-08 05.31.19 NASA's Spitzer Captures Stellar Family Portrait The evolution of stellar families - born from the same clumps of gas and dust - is just some of what's on display in ... read more	ssc2019-06 05.08.19 New Clues About How Ancient Galaxies Lit up the Universe NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the universe's earliest galaxies were brighter than expected... read more
ssc2019-05 04.25.19 The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black Hole On April 10, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole's event horizon, t... read more	ssc2019-04 03.27.19 'Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrare... read more
ssc2019-03 02.27.19 Why Do Some Galactic Unions Lead to Doom? Three images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show pairs of galaxies on the cusp of cosmic consolidations. Though ... read more	ssc2019-01 01.07.19 Citizen Scientists Find New World with NASA Telescope Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, citizen scientists have discovered a planet roughly twice the size of ... read more
ssc2019-02 01.07.19 NASA Science Featured at Major Astronomy Conference Astronomers, astrophysicists and other space scientists will gather to discuss their latest research at the 233rd mee... read more	ssc2018-17 12.18.18 Young Star Caught in a Fit of Growth Researchers have discovered a young star in the midst of a rare growth spurt—a dramatic phase of stellar evolution wh... read more
ssc2018-16 11.16.18 Exploding Stars Make Key Ingredient in Sand, Glass We are all, quite literally, made of star dust. Many of the chemicals that compose our planet and our bodies were for... read more	ssc2018-15 11.14.18 NASA Learns More About Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua In November 2017, scientists pointed NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope toward the object known as 'Oumuamua - the first ... read more
ssc2018-14 10.23.18 Newborn Stars Blow Bubbles in the Cat's Paw Nebula This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Cat's Paw Nebula, so named for the large, round features tha... read more	ssc2018-13 08.22.18 15 Years in Space for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Initially scheduled for a minimum 2.5-year primary mission, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has gone far beyond its ex... read more
ssc2018-12 08.10.18 Spitzer Beyond: The Incredible Continuing Adventures of the Spitzer Space Telescope The Spitzer Space Telescope is one of NASA's Great Observatories, designed to observe the universe in infrared light.... read more	ssc2018-10 08.09.18 Water Is Destroyed, Then Reborn in Ultrahot Jupiters Imagine a place where the weather forecast is always the same: scorching temperatures, relentlessly sunny, and with a... read more
ssc2018-09 08.02.18 The Fading Ghost of a Long-Dead Star Thin, red veins of energized gas mark the location of one of the larger supernova remnants in the Milky Way galaxy in... read more	ssc2018-08 06.14.18 Astronomers See Distant Eruption as Black Hole Destroys Star For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material eje... read more
ssc2018-07 03.01.18 NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere Much like detectives who study fingerprints to identify the culprit, scientists used NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space ... read more	ssc2018-04 02.05.18 New Clues to TRAPPIST-1 Planet Compositions, Atmospheres In the year since NASA announced the seven Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, scientists have been working... read more
ssc2018-03 01.22.18 A ‘hot Jupiter’ with unusual winds The hottest point on a gaseous planet near a distant star isn’t where astrophysicists expected it to be – a discovery... read more	ssc2018-02 01.11.18 NASA's Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant Galaxy An intensive survey deep into the universe by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has yielded the proverbial n... read more
ssc2018-01 01.11.18 NASA Space Telescopes Provide a 3-D Journey Through the Orion Nebula Astronomers and visualization specialists from NASA's Universe of Learning program have combined visible and infrared... read more	ssc2017-18 11.29.17 Exoplanet Has Smothering Stratosphere Without Water A NASA-led team has found evidence that the oversized exoplanet WASP-18b is wrapped in a smothering stratosphere load... read more
ssc2017-17 11.16.17 Lava or Not, Exoplanet 55 Cancri e Likely to have Atmosphere A super-Earth exoplanet thought to sport lava lakes on its hot side, 55 Cancri e, likely also wears an atmosphere wit... read more	ssc2017-16 11.01.17 Overlooked Treasure: The First Evidence of Exoplanets Beneath an elegant office building with a Spanish-style red tiled roof in Pasadena, California, three timeworn storer... read more

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	January 28 Spitzer Space Telescope Fly-Around
	January 28 16 Years of Spitzer Science in 60 Seconds
	January 28 Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Fly-Around
	January 28 Spitzer Space Telescope Beauty Pass
	January 6 Spitzer Final Voyage - 360 Experience

	January 28 Kelt-9b: The Hottest Hot Jupiter (Wide)
	January 28 Kelt-9b: The Hottest Hot Jupiter (Tall)
	January 27 Tarantula Nebula Spitzer 3-Color Image (Annotated)
	January 27 Tarantula Nebula Spitzer 2-Color Image
	January 27 Tarantula Nebula Spitzer 3-Color Image