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ssc2019-10 06.13.19 How NASA's Spitzer Has Stayed Alive for So LongAfter 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 PortraitThe 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 UniverseNASA'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 HoleOn 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 StarsWhat 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 TelescopeUsing 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 ConferenceAstronomers, 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 GrowthResearchers 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, GlassWe 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 'OumuamuaIn 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 NebulaThis 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 TelescopeInitially 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 TelescopeThe 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 JupitersImagine 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 StarThin, 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 StarFor 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 AtmosphereMuch 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, AtmospheresIn 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 windsThe 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 GalaxyAn 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 NebulaAstronomers 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 WaterA 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 AtmosphereA 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 ExoplanetsBeneath an elegant office building with a Spanish-style red tiled roof in Pasadena, California, three timeworn storer... read more |
ssc2017-15 10.30.17 Spitzer Reveals Ancient Galaxies' Frenzied StarmakingA deep look back to the early universe by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed a surprisingly rowdy bunch of g... read more |
ssc2017-14 10.16.17 NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave EventFor the first time, NASA scientists have detected light tied to a gravitational-wave event, thanks to two merging neu... read more |
ssc2017-13 10.13.17 NASA Seeks Information from Potential Funders for SpitzerNASA is seeking information from U.S. parties interested in operating the Spitzer Space Telescope with non-NASA fundi... read more |
ssc2017-12 10.11.17 Giant Exoplanet Hunters: Look for Debris DisksA study finds that giant exoplanets that orbit far from their stars are more likely to be found around young stars th... read more |
ssc2017-11 10.04.17 Mysterious Dimming of Tabby's Star May Be Caused by DustOne of the most mysterious stellar objects may be revealing some of its secrets at last. Called KIC 8462852, also kno... read more |
ssc2017-10 08.17.17 Scientists Improve Brown Dwarf Weather ForecastsDim objects called brown dwarfs, less massive than the Sun but more massive than Jupiter, have powerful winds and clo... read more |
ssc2017-09 08.11.17 TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar SystemResearchers say in a new study that the TRAPPIST-1 star is quite old: between 5.4 and 9.8 billion years. This is up t... read more |
ssc2017-08 06.08.17 The Art of ExoplanetsHow do you visualize distant worlds that you can't see? IPAC's Robert Hurt and Tim Pyle are featured in a new video p... read more |
ssc2017-07 05.25.17 Collapsing Star Gives Birth to a Black HoleAstronomers have watched as a massive, dying star was likely reborn as a black hole. read more |
ssc2017-06 05.11.17 'Warm Neptune' Has Unexpectedly Primitive AtmosphereA study combining observations from NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes reveals that the distant planet HAT-P-... read more |
ssc2017-05 05.10.17 Observatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab NebulaAstronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning near... read more |
ssc2017-04 05.03.17 5000 Days in the Life of an Astronomy RobotMay 3rd, 2017 marks the 5,000th day of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope mission. This video gives us a detailed look at... read more |
ssc2017-03 04.26.17 'Iceball' Planet Discovered Through MicrolensingScientists have discovered a new planet with the mass of Earth, orbiting its star at the same distance that we orbit ... read more |
ssc2017-02 03.10.17 Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First StarsAstronomers have detected a huge mass of glowing stardust in a galaxy seen when the universe was only 4 percent of it... read more |
ssc2017-01 02.22.17 NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. ... read more |
