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feature13-03 05.16.13 Galaxy's Ring of Fire This galaxy's ring of fire "burns, burns, burns" with young stars. read more	feature13-02 05.06.13 NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish Astronomers are using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to dissect the atmospheres of an exotic class of planets called ... read more
feature13-01 04.03.13 A Confetti-Like Collection of Stars Stars sparkle in this lively new view of the Small Magellanic Cloud from NASA's Great Observatories. read more	feature12-08 12.19.12 Armchair Science: Bag and Tag Glowing Galactic Clouds A new galactic game launches today that lets citizen scientists identify the glowing clouds where future stars will b... read more
feature12-07 12.18.12 Shot Away from its Companion, Giant Star Makes Waves A runaway star can be seen charging through the dust in an infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. read more	feature12-06 09.26.12 Spitzer, Hubble See Galaxy-Altering Quasars Ignite NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes have caught sight of luminous quasars igniting after galaxies collide. Qua... read more
feature12-05 09.24.12 Spitzer Welcomes Shuttle Endeavour to Los Angeles The Space Shuttle Endeavour, mounted atop its specially-adapted 747, made a grand tour of the Los Angles basin on Sep... read more	feature12-04 05.24.12 NASA Scientist Figures Way to Weigh Space Rock A scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has accurately determined the mass of a nearby a... read more
feature12-03 03.07.12 Citizen Scientists Reveal a Bubbly Milky Way Volunteers are helping astronomers find star-blown bubbles throughout our Milky Way galaxy. read more	feature12-02 01.25.12 Astronomical Success: Caltech's George Helou Honored by Home Country of Lebanon They say there is no place like home. For Caltech's George Helou, the essence of that phrase carries over to the reco... read more
feature12-01 01.11.12 Teacher Program Brings NASA Research to High Schools, Middle Schools, Museums Imagine you are a high school student walking into your science class in September and you learn that your teacher is... read more	feature11-13 11.23.11 Doubling Up on the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy Like the Milky Way, Messier 83 is classified as a barred spiral galaxy due to the bar-like pattern of stars that run ... read more
feature11-12 11.10.11 The Tarantula Glows with X-rays and Infrared Light The Tarantula nebula can be seen here in a web of dust and multimillion-degree gas. read more	feature11-11 10.19.11 Spitzer Finds the Coldest Companion to a Star Ever Seen Although we all want to think that the people we keep company with are "cool," when it comes to the cosmos, no one ha... read more
feature11-10 09.26.11 Spitzer Detects a Steaming Super-Earth Eclipsing Its Star NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has gathered surprising new details about a supersized and superheated version of Eart... read more	feature11-09 08.15.11 Honeycomb Carbon Crystals Possibly Detected in Space Flat flakes of carbon have been tentatively spotted in space. read more
feature11-08 08.10.11 A Cosmic Inkblot Test What do you see when you look at this strange mix of shapes from space? read more	feature11-07 08.09.11 Spitzer Status Update Spitzer scientists and engineers are beginning tests to study the feasibility of switching to the spacecraft's Inerti... read more
feature11-06 07.20.11 Spitzer's Spider Web of Stars Stars appear to be caught in a galactic web in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. read more	feature11-05 06.15.11 A Green Ring Fit for a Superhero Has the comic book superhero Green Lantern lost his ring? In fact, this giant ring of glowing dust, imaged by NASA's ... read more
feature11-03 05.23.11 Planet? Check. A new planetary member of the Kepler-10 solar system was announced today. Using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telesc... read more	feature11-04 05.20.11 Spitzer Achievements Honored at Rotary Stellar Awards NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has been awarded the prestigious 2011 Stellar Award by the Rotary National Award for S... read more
feature11-02 02.07.11 IPAC Celebrates 25 Years at Caltech Twenty five years ago moving vans were being loaded at the Union Bank, on South Lake Avenue in Pasadena, for the firs... read more	feature11-01 01.10.11 Stellar Education: Teachers Bring Classroom Space Science to Astronomy Conference Real space science and insights into teaching astronomy come straight from the classroom to a renowned international ... read more
feature10-20 11.24.10 Astronomers Probe 'Sandbar' Between Islands of Galaxies Astronomers have caught sight of an unusual galaxy that has illuminated new details about a celestial "sandbar" conne... read more	feature10-19 11.18.10 Spitzer Reveals a Buried Explosion Sparked by a Galactic Train Wreck Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found a stunning burst of star formation that beams out as much... read more
feature10-18 10.27.10 Spitzer Goes Buck Wild and Finds Buckyballs Floating Between the Stars Fresh after finding buckyballs around an aging star, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has now detected these intriguing... read more	feature10-17 10.12.10 Giant Star Goes Supernova -- and is Smothered by its Own Dust A giant star in a faraway galaxy recently ended its life with a dust-shrouded whimper instead of the more typical bang. read more
feature10-16 09.23.10 Shining Starlight on the Dark Cocoons of Star Birth NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope data offers insight into cores of star-forming regions. read more	feature10-15 09.02.10 Spitzer Finds a Flavorful Mix of Asteroids New research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids somewhat near Earth, termed near-Earth object... read more
feature10-14 08.18.10 Galaxies' Glory Days Revealed Astronomers have experienced the galactic equivalent of discovering pictures of a mild-mannered grandmother partying ... read more	feature10-13 08.05.10 NASA's Great Observatories Witness a Galactic Spectacle A new image of two tangled galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories. read more
feature10-12 07.28.10 Into the Wild: Spitzer Space Telescope Surveys the Milky Way's Outback A new survey by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has turned up treasures aplenty in the outer regions of the Milky Way,... read more	feature10-11 07.14.10 Unravelling the Mystery of Star Birth - Dust Disk Discovered Around Massive Star Astronomers caught their first glimpse of a dusty disk closely encircling a massive baby star, providing direct evide... read more
feature10-10 07.09.10 Catch a Planet By the Tail New observations of a dust cloud trailing Earth may help astronomers find Earth-like planets around distant stars. NA... read more	feature10-09 07.07.10 Spitzer Spies a 'Flying Dragon' Smoldering with Secret Star Birth NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed a cosmic cloud shaped like a flying dragon that has a secret burning behi... read more
feature10-08 06.24.10 The Coolest Stars Come Out of the Dark Astronomers have uncovered what appear to be 14 of the coldest stars known in our universe. These failed stars, calle... read more	feature10-07 05.20.10 Two Peas in an Irregular Pod: How Binary Stars May Form Our sun may be an only child, but most of the stars in the galaxy are actually twins. The sibling stars circle around... read more
feature10-06 05.12.10 Ancient City of Galaxies Looks Surprisingly Modern Astronomers are a bit like archeologists as they dig back through space and time searching for remnants of the early ... read more	feature10-05 04.01.10 Colony of Young Stars Shines in New Spitzer Image Astronomers have their eyes on a hot group of young stars, watching their every move like the paparazzi. A new infrar... read more
feature10-04 03.23.10 Spitzer Space Telescope Team Receives Award NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope team has been selected to receive the 2010 Maria and Eric Muhlmann Award from the Astr... read more	feature10-03 03.10.10 Spitzer Detects the 'Heartbeat' of Star Formation in the Milky Way Galaxy Astronomers 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 Us Imagine 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 Explosions New 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 Olympics Artwork inspired by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is making an appearance at this year's Winter Olympics in Vancouve... read more	feature09-17 12.24.09 A Quarter Century of Infrared Astronomy This composite graphic encompasses a quarter century of infrared astronomy from space, a world away from Galileo Gali... read more
feature09-16 11.04.09 Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes a Chaotic Planetary System Before 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 Status On 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 Origins Four 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 Planet Peering far beyond our solar system, NASA researchers have detected the basic chemistry for life in a second hot gas ... read more
feature09-11 09.01.09 Station Fire Smoke and flames from the Station Fire are visible from the Spitzer Science Center, located on the campus of the Cali... read more	feature09-10 07.27.09 Warmed Up and Ready to Go NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has put its infrared eyes back on the sky to observe the cold and dusty universe. read more
feature09-09 07.10.09 Spitzer Status Update Testing and characterization activities continue for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope warm mission, a process that bega... read more	feature09-08 06.29.09 Frank Low, Pioneer of Infrared Astronomy, 1933-2009 On June 11th, Dr. Frank Low, one of the people responsible for the rise of infrared astronomy, died in Tucson. He was... read more
feature09-07 06.23.09 Spitzer Status Update Engineers and scientists are continuing with testing and characterization activities for the NASA Spitzer Space Teles... read more	feature09-06 06.09.09 Spitzer Status Update Characterization activities for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope continue, a process that began after its cryogen ran o... read more
feature09-05 05.28.09 Spitzer Status Update Characterization activities for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope continue, a process that began after its cryogen ran o... read more	feature09-04 05.05.09 If Spitzer Could Talk: An Interview with NASA's Coolest Space Telescope NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to use its last drop of the coolant that has chilled it for the past five-and... read more
feature09-03 04.30.09 Streams of Stars Provide "Missing Link" in the Evolution of Galaxy Disks Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered streams of young stars flow... read more	feature09-02 04.20.09 Rocky Planets Around 'Dead' Stars Using the infrared detectors on NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of researchers based in the U.K. and in the Un... read more
feature09-01 03.12.09 Galactic Dust Bunnies Found to Contain Carbon After All Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, researchers have found evidence suggesting that stars rich in carbon complex mo... read more	feature08-18 12.24.08 New Image Shows the Power of Visual Remix The same way a visible-light photographer can choose to shoot black and white instead of color, astronomers using NAS... read more
feature08-17 12.16.08 Planets Living on the Edge Some stars have it tough when it comes to raising planets. A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows one ... read more	feature08-16 12.03.08 Vivid View of Tycho's Supernova Remnant This composite image of the Tycho supernova remnant combines infrared and X-ray observations obtained with NASA's Spi... read more
feature08-14 10.07.08 Artists and Astronomers 'Observe' the Universe Together Our current view of the universe, to quote Albert Einstein, is "not weirder than we do imagine, but weirder than we c... read more	feature08-15 10.07.08 Massive Young Stars Trigger Stellar Birth RCW 108 is a region where stars are actively forming within the Milky Way galaxy about 4,000 light years from Earth. ... read more
feature08-13 09.23.08 Spitzer Podcasts Downloaded Over 7 Million Times Podcasting -- producing audio & video content for computers and mobile devices -- has grown in popularity over the pa... read more	feature08-12 09.18.08 Water Hit with Young Star's Best Shot Water is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer... read more
feature08-11 09.10.08 The Spitzer Space Telescope and the Los Angeles Arboretum Team Up for Terrabyte Take leading artists and scientists from all over the Pasadena area, put them in the great outdoors on a lovely late ... read more	feature08-10 08.19.08 Celebrate Spitzer's 5th Anniversary at Griffith Observatory! Los Angeles' Griffith Observatory will host an event on August 22-24, 2008 to celebrate the fifth anniversary of NASA... read more
feature08-09 08.06.08 Spitzer Notices Star Birth Spike in Galaxies Moving to Cosmic Cities New evidence from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that most galaxies undergo a huge stellar baby boom when the... read more	feature08-08 06.18.08 Stellar Lightweight Causes a Mysteriously Massive Explosion When amateur astronomer Ron Arbour spotted an enormous explosion from 17 million light-years away in the Fireworks Ga... read more
feature08-07 05.16.08 Spitzer Finds Cosmic Neon's Sweet Spot On Earth, neon is known for being flashy. Any Las Vegas tourist knows that signs sporting this noble gas are hard to ... read more	feature08-06 05.13.08 New Software Brings the Universe to Your Computer The incredible images from NASA's "Great Observatories" and many other NASA space- and ground-based telescopes are no... read more
feature08-05 04.30.08 The Second Stellar Baby Boom When it comes to giving birth, galaxies don't seem to have a "ticking biological clock." In fact, observations from N... read more	feature08-04 04.08.08 Spitzer Spots Ancient Cosmic Urban Sprawl The universe's first "galactic cities" did not sprout up randomly across space. On the contrary, a new statistical an... read more
feature08-03 03.24.08 Cosmic Searchlights Reveal 'Lost' Galaxies Millions of faint galaxies are hovering near the edge of our universe, too dim to be detected by most telescopes -- b... read more	feature08-02 02.26.08 Spitzer's Eyes Perfect for Spotting Diamonds in the Sky Diamonds may be rare on Earth, but surprisingly common in space -- and the super-sensitive infrared eyes of NASA's Sp... read more
feature08-01 01.25.08 Cosmic Suburbia is a Better Breeding Ground for Stars New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that galaxies prefer to raise stars in cosmic suburbia r... read more	feature07-25 12.21.07 One Million Downloads for the Hidden Universe It's official -- "The Hidden Universe" is no longer a secret. The video podcast series from NASA's Spitzer Space Tele... read more
feature07-24 12.14.07 Spitzer Studies Struggle of Galactic Teenagers Billions of years ago, small galaxies across the universe regularly collided -- forcing the gas, dust, stars, and bla... read more	feature07-23 12.11.07 A Classic Beauty M51, whose name comes from being the 51st entry in Charles Messier's catalog, is considered to be one of the classic ... read more
feature07-22 11.28.07 Youthful Star Sprouts Planets Early A stellar prodigy has been spotted about 450 light-years away in a system called UX Tau A by NASA's Spitzer Space Tel... read more	feature07-21 11.13.07 Spitzer Researcher Named 2007 Scientist of the Year Dr. David Charbonneau was named Discover Magazine's "Scientist of the Year" for his work in detecting and characteriz... read more
feature07-20 11.08.07 Spitzer Spies a Stellar Bubble Blower A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a baby star 1,140 light-years away from Earth blowing two massi... read more	feature07-19 10.22.07 To Catch a Galactic Thief On Earth, thieves steal everything from diamonds to art to bags full of money. In space, gas -- fuel for making stars... read more
feature07-18 10.17.07 Infrared Galaxies Didn't Always Prefer the 'Suburbs' Dusty infrared galaxies are cosmic "nurseries" for some of the universe's hottest young stars -- and new research fro... read more	feature07-17 10.03.07 Star System 'Just Right' for Building an Earth An Earth-like planet is likely forming 424 light-years away in a star system called HD 113766, say astronomers using ... read more
feature07-16 09.26.07 Spitzer Astronomer Selected for Women's Hall of Fame The National Women's Hall of Fame has selected Dr. Judith Pipher, a Spitzer Space Telescope astronomer, to join its r... read more	feature07-15 09.18.07 Open Your 'SkInfrared' Eyes in Old Pasadena View the world through heat-sensitive infrared eyes at SkInfrared, a free art exhibit presented by NASA's Spitzer Spa... read more
feature07-14 09.12.07 Cosmic Neon Lights the Way On Earth, neon signs point to motel vacancies and nearby eateries. Now for the first time, astronomers have spotted n... read more	feature07-13 08.24.07 Spitzer Celebrates Fourth Anniversary with Celestial Fireworks A newly expanded image of the Helix nebula lends a festive touch to the fourth anniversary of the launch of NASA's Sp... read more
feature07-12 08.16.07 Terrabyte 2.0 Launches at the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden on August 26, 2007 Transport to a universe of ever-changing sights, sounds, and spaces at the Los Angeles County Arboretum's second annu... read more	feature07-11 08.16.07 Do Supermassive Black Holes Stunt Stellar Birth in Galaxies? New evidence from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows that supermassive black holes at the centers of elliptical gal... read more
feature07-10 08.08.07 Stellar Siblings in Serpens South A spectacular new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope uncovers a small group of young stellar "siblings" in the... read more	feature07-09 07.24.07 Planets with Four Parents? Spitzer Finds Evidence for Strange Stellar Family How many stars does it take to "raise" a planet? In our own solar system, it took only one -- our Sun. However, new r... read more
feature07-08 06.13.07 Spitzer Searches for the Origins of Life on Earth Astronomers suspect the early Earth was a very harsh place. Temperatures were extreme, and the planet was constantly ... read more	feature07-07 05.30.07 Running Rings Around the Galaxy An astronomer at the Spitzer Science Center has discovered three giant stellar streams arcing high over the Milky Way... read more
feature07-06 05.28.07 Life in the Cosmic Suburbs Large galaxy clusters are the universe's metropolises, and for years many astronomers have focused their attention on... read more	feature07-05 05.17.07 Baby Stars Hatching in Orion's Head A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows infant stars "hatching" in the head of Orion, the famous hunter... read more

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