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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 |
ssc2017-00 02.14.17 Spitzer Hears Stellar 'Heartbeat' from Planetary CompanionA planet and a star are having a tumultuous romance that can be detected from 370 light-years away. NASA's Spitzer Sp... read more |
feature16-18 11.10.16 NASA Space Telescopes Pinpoint Elusive Brown DwarfIn a first-of-its-kind collaboration, NASA's Spitzer and Swift space telescopes joined forces to observe a microlensi... read more |
feature16-17 09.28.16 The Frontier Fields: Where Primordial Galaxies LurkIn the ongoing hunt for the universe's earliest galaxies, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has wrapped up its observati... read more |
feature16-16 09.21.16 'Milky Way Project' Relaunches Citizen Science WebsiteTo most of us, our home galaxy, the Milky Way, seems like mind-boggling, never-ending space. But what does the Milky ... read more |
feature16-15 09.08.16 'Enterprise' Nebulae Seen by SpitzerJust in time for the 50th anniversary of the TV series "Star Trek," which first aired September 8th,1966, a new infra... read more |
feature16-14 08.29.16 NASA Team Probes Peculiar Age-Defying StarFor years, astronomers have puzzled over a massive star lodged deep in the Milky Way that shows conflicting signs of ... read more |
feature16-13 08.25.16 Spitzer Space Telescope Begins 'Beyond' PhaseCelebrating the spacecraft's ability to push the boundaries of space science and technology, NASA's Spitzer Space Tel... read more |
feature16-12 07.27.16 Loneliest Young Star Seen by Spitzer and WISEAlone on the cosmic road, far from any known celestial object, a young, independent star is going through a tremendou... read more |
feature16-11 07.21.16 Seeing the Milky Way's Giant Black Hole with New EyesThe Spitzer Space Telescope is exploring Sagittarius A*, the black hole in the center of the Milky Way. This supermas... read more |
feature16-10 06.14.16 Gluttonous Star May Hold Clues to Planet FormationAstronomers have gained a new perspective on the behavior of outbursting star FU Orionis, using data from an airborne... read more |
feature16-09 06.09.16 Spitzer Operations to Continue into 2019NASA has approved the continued operation of the Spitzer mission through the commissioning phase of the James Webb Sp... read more |
feature16-08 05.24.16 NASA Telescopes Find Clues For How Giant Black Holes Formed So QuicklyUsing data from NASA's Great Observatories, astronomers have found the best evidence yet for cosmic seeds in the earl... read more |
feature16-07 04.26.16 Light Echoes Give Clues to Protoplanetary DiskImagine you want to measure the size of a room, but it's completely dark. If you shout, you can tell if the space you... read more |
feature16-06 04.14.16 A Space Spider Watches Over Young StarsA nebula known as "the Spider" glows fluorescent green in an infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and t... read more |
ssc2016-01 03.30.16 NASA’s Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns on a Super-EarthObservations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the first temperature map of a super-Earth planet -- a r... read more |
feature16-05 03.28.16 Investigating the Mystery of Migrating 'Hot Jupiters'How do some gas giant planets end up so feverishly close to their stars? NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope finds new clues. read more |
feature16-04 03.03.16 Hubble Team Breaks Cosmic Distance RecordBy pushing NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic... read more |
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February 22 Homes Away From Home? Revisiting the Seven Planets of TRAPPIST-1 |
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February 5 Not So Strange New Worlds |
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February 6 Imagining the Planets of TRAPPIST-1 |
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August 17 Brown Dwarf Weather Annotated |
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August 17 Brown Dwarf Weather Animated Chart |
