ssc2010-04 03.29.10 Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: Chandra/Spitzer ImageA new image from NASA's Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes shows the dusty remains of a collapsed star. The dust is... read more |
feature10-04 03.23.10 Spitzer Space Telescope Team Receives AwardNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope team has been selected to receive the 2010 Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award from the Astr... read more |
ssc2010-03 03.17.10 NASA's Spitzer Unearths Primitive Black HolesAstronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known.... read more |
feature10-03 03.10.10 Spitzer Detects the 'Heartbeat' of Star Formation in the Milky Way GalaxyAstronomers have used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope rather like a doctor's stethoscope to listen in on the "heartbea... read more |
feature10-02 02.18.10 Jurassic Space: Telescopes Probe Ancient Galaxies Near UsImagine finding a living dinosaur in your backyard. Astronomers have found the astronomical equivalent of prehistoric... read more |
partner069 02.17.10 NASA's Chandra Reveals Origin of Key Cosmic ExplosionsNew findings from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have provided a major advance in understanding a type of supernova... read more |
feature10-01 02.09.10 Spitzer Goes to the OlympicsArtwork inspired by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is making an appearance at this year's Winter Olympics in Vancouve... read more |
partner068 01.29.10 The Coolest of OrbsUniversity of Hertfordshire - Astronomers using several telescopes, including NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, have di... read more |
ssc2010-02 01.05.10 Galaxy Exposes its Dusty Inner Workings in New Spitzer ImageNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an action-packed picture of the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud, a small ga... read more |
ssc2010-01 01.05.10 Centuries-Old Star Mystery Coming to a CloseFor almost two centuries, humans have looked up at a bright star called Epsilon Aurigae and watched with their own ey... read more |
feature09-17 12.24.09 A Quarter Century of Infrared AstronomyThis composite graphic encompasses a quarter century of infrared astronomy from space, a world away from Galileo Gali... read more |
ssc2009-22 11.30.09 Spitzer to Unveil Biggest Milky Way View at Adler PlanetariumIn an unveiling of truly galactic proportions, the world's largest image of our Milky Way galaxy, taken by NASA's Spi... read more |
ssc2009-21 11.23.09 Spitzer Telescope Observes Baby Brown DwarfNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has contributed to the discovery of the youngest brown dwarf ever observed -- a findin... read more |
ssc2009-20 11.10.09 NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of AstronomyA never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy is being unveiled by NASA today. This event w... read more |
feature09-16 11.04.09 Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes a Chaotic Planetary SystemBefore our planets found their way to the stable orbits they circle in today, they wiggled and jostled about like uns... read more |
feature09-15 10.30.09 Spitzer Space Telescope Mission StatusOn Friday, Oct. 23, engineers with NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope successfully swapped the spacecraft from the main n... read more |
feature09-14 10.23.09 Universal OriginsFour hundred years ago when Galileo turned his tiny telescope to the night sky our view of the Universe changed forev... read more |
feature09-12 10.20.09 Astronomers Do It Again: Find Organic Molecules Around Gas PlanetPeering far beyond our solar system, NASA researchers have detected the basic chemistry for life in a second hot gas ... read more |
ssc2009-19 10.06.09 NASA Space Telescope Discovers Largest Ring Around SaturnNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered an enormous ring around Saturn â by far the largest of the giant plan... read more |
ssc2009-18 09.23.09 NASA's Spitzer Spots Clump of Swirling Planetary MaterialAstronomers have witnessed odd behavior around a young star. Something, perhaps another star or a planet, appears to ... read more |
ssc2009-17 08.12.09 Space Telescopes Find Trigger-Happy Star FormationA new study from two of NASA's Great Observatories provides fresh insight into how some stars are born, along with a ... read more |
ssc2009-16 08.10.09 Planet Smash-Up Sends Vaporized Rock, Hot Lava FlyingNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found evidence of a high-speed collision between two burgeoning planets around a y... read more |
ssc2009-15 08.05.09 NASA's Spitzer Sees the Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared EyesNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is starting a second career and taking its first shots of the cosmos since warming up. read more |
