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ssc2019-16 09.30.19 Spitzer Spots a Starry Region Bursting With BubblesThis 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 16NASA 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 SurfaceA 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 GalaxyIt 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, SpitzerTwo 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 TelescopeUnlike 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 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 |
ssc2019-02 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 |
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 |
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 |
ssc2018-01 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 |
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 |
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 |
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August 19 Dark World Animation |
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August 19 Dark World Animation Annotated |
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June 11 Spitzer Final Voyage |
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June 11 Stars of Cepheus as Seen by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope |
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August 22 NASA's Exoplanet Excursions 360 |
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September 30 Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere! |
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September 30 Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere! (Annotated) |
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September 30 Bow Shocks Between the Bubbles |
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August 27 Full Infrared View of the M81 Galaxy |
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August 27 Galaxy M81 in Infrared, Revisited |
