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feature07-04 05.01.07 Spitzer Spies Jet-Setting Stars Rainbow-colored jets in the cosmic cloud BHR 71 point to a celestial smash occurring 600 light-years away from Earth ... read more	feature07-03 04.26.07 Spitzer Learns About Carbon's Cosmic Life Astronomers may be one step closer to understanding how the ingredients of life are processed in space, thanks to NAS... read more
feature07-02 04.11.07 Purple Palm Trees on Alien Worlds? A team of NASA scientists led by a member of the Spitzer Science Center believe they have found a way to predict the ... read more	feature07-01 03.13.07 Dead Star Snacks on Shredded Asteroid For the last two years, astronomers have suspected that a nearby white dwarf star called GD 362 was "snacking" on a s... read more
feature06-36 12.11.06 Times Change, But Do Supermassive Black Holes Remain the Same? Have supermassive black holes changed since the dawn of our Universe nearly 14 billion years ago? read more	feature06-35 11.29.06 Great Observatories Observe Oddball Supernova Remnant NASA's Great Observatories -- Spitzer, Hubble, and Chandra -- are working together to unlock the mysterious structure... read more
feature06-34 10.24.06 Belching Black Holes Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have recently identified two quasars, or supermassive black holes, t... read more	feature06-33 10.19.06 'Art of Astronomy' Event To Feature Space Artists and More Mark your calendars for The Art of Astronomy, a three-day public event celebrating the collaboration of astronomy and... read more
feature06-32 10.10.06 Asteroids, Comets, and Planets: Cut from the Same Cloth? Could all of the asteroids, comets, and planets in our Milky Way galaxy be made of a similar mix of dusty components? read more	feature06-31 10.03.06 Planets Prefer Safe Neighborhoods A star must live in a relatively tranquil cosmic neighborhood to foster planet formation, say astronomers using NASA'... read more
feature06-30 09.26.06 Echoing Infrared Across the Milky Way For a brief moment in 2002, an obscure star called V838 Monocerotis (nicknamed V838 Mon by astronomers) suddenly beca... read more	feature06-29 09.18.06 Spitzer Sees a Dim Star and Big Bright Black Hole Two extremely rare cosmic objects have recently been detected in a shallow survey conducted with NASA's Spitzer Space... read more
feature06-28 09.08.06 Spitzer Is Back and Revealing the Story of Stellar Birth A spectacular new infrared image and spectrum from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals the complex life cycle of y... read more	feature06-27 08.31.06 Spitzer Restored to Normal Operations Engineers and scientists working on the recovery team brought NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope out of safe mode and res... read more
feature06-26 08.25.06 Spitzer Celebrates Terrific Threes! In three terrific years, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has peered into the heart of our Milky Way galaxy, detected p... read more	feature06-25 08.21.06 Engineers Studying Spitzer Anomaly Engineers are studying data returned by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, to determine what caused the observatory to e... read more
feature06-24 07.24.06 Black Hole Spills Kaleidoscope of Color Shoes may not come in every color, but space objects do. All objects in space, everything from dust to distant galaxi... read more	feature06-23 07.19.06 The Infrared Universe Comes to the Los Angeles County Arboretum Want to lift off into space, but don't have a rocket? Just stop by the Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden ... read more
feature06-22 07.14.06 Spitzer Spots Building Blocks of Life in Supernova Remnant In 1987 a massive star exploded in a neighboring galaxy, an event called a supernova. It was the closest supernova to... read more	feature06-21 07.07.06 Astronomer in the Making Adela Fedor has yet to receive a PhD, high school diploma, or even finish the eighth grade, but that did not stop her... read more
feature06-20 06.16.06 How To Bake a Galaxy Start with lots and lots of dark matter, then stir in gas. Let the mixture sit for a while, and a galaxy should rise ... read more	feature06-19 06.08.06 A Massive Star's Death and the Dusty Universe When the universe was only 700 million years old, some of its galaxies were already filled with lots of dust. But whe... read more
feature06-18 06.07.06 Astronomers Find a Galactic Highway in the Sky A long, slender stream of ancient stars has been discovered racing across the northern sky. The stream is about 30,00... read more	feature06-17 06.05.06 Astronomers Find Ancient 'Cities' of Galaxies A team of astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered a grand total of nearly 300 clusters of gal... read more
feature06-16 05.22.06 Spitzer Reveals Jets Around a Dead Star One of the most mysterious aspects of black holes is their ability to shoot small, steady jets of matter into space n... read more	feature06-15 05.19.06 Teachers and Teens Discover a Cauldron of Star Formation Eight hundred light-years away in the Orion constellation, a gigantic murky cloud called the "Witch Head Nebula" is t... read more
feature06-14 05.10.06 Spitzer Spies the Remnants of a Shy Star Big stars usually aren't shy about anything, not even death. At the end of their lives, they throw explosive tantrums... read more	feature06-13 05.05.06 Spitzer Captures a Comet's Breakdown Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3 cannot seem to hold itself together. During a visit to the inner solar system in 1995... read more
feature06-12 04.28.06 NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope a Cosmic Success! Self-help books and grade school teachers have been promoting this tip for decades: To keep success in sight, make a ... read more	feature06-11 04.24.06 Great Observatories Present Rainbow of a Galaxy NASA's Spitzer, Hubble, and Chandra space observatories teamed up to create this multi-wavelength, false-colored view... read more
feature06-10 04.20.06 The Infrared Background: Sometimes It's What You Don't See That Counts It probably comes as no surprise that as powerful as our telescopes are, there are limits to what they can see. As we... read more	feature06-09 04.07.06 Old and New Fellows Meet at a Spitzer Science Center Symposium Old and new participants of the Spitzer Space Telescope Fellowship program will meet at the Spitzer Science Center on... read more
feature06-08 03.31.06 Spitzer Finds Hyperactive Galaxies in the Distant Universe Paper trails and DNA tests will not help nearby elliptical galaxies find their galactic ancestors. However, an identi... read more	feature06-07 03.21.06 Spitzer Goes on a Cosmic Safari Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have conducted a cosmic safari to seek out a rare galactic species. ... read more
feature06-06 03.15.06 SSC Astronomer Discovers a River of Stars The California Institute of Technology announced today (March 15) that a team of astronomers, led by Carl Grillmair o... read more	feature06-05 03.02.06 Hostile Beginnings for Components of Life The components of life may have been under attack in the hostile environments of the universe's first galaxies, say a... read more
feature06-04 03.01.06 Congratulations to the 2006 Spitzer Fellows! Five recent PhDs have just been offered the chance of a lifetime. They have been given three years to focus solely on... read more	feature06-03 02.09.06 Spitzer Scientist Speaks at AAAS Conference Among the thousands of top interdisciplinary scientists, policy makers, journalists, and general science enthusiasts ... read more
feature06-02 02.02.06 Spitzer Visits Spitzer When Doreen Spitzer learned that her son was going to visit the science center named after her late husband, Dr. Lyma... read more	feature06-01 01.26.06 Visiting Scientist Program Invites 'Cosmic Rock Star' Dr. Edward Tedesco may not play a musical instrument and has yet to release an album, but that does not mean he isn't... read more
feature05-28 12.22.05 Spitzer Spots Stellar Snowflake on the 'Christmas Tree Cluster' The "Christmas Tree Cluster" has been seen sporting a shiny new decoration: an ornament made of newborn stars! But li... read more	feature05-27 12.14.05 Spitzer Team Says Debris Disk Could Be Forming Infant Terrestrial Planets Astronomers have found a debris disk around a sun-like star that may be forming or has formed its terrestrial planets... read more
feature05-26 12.12.05 Spitzer Exposes Our Galaxy's Deepest Secrets Astronomers have at last found inner light! Only, they didn't find it through the typical Earthly methods of meditati... read more	feature05-25 12.08.05 High School Students and Teachers To Present Spitzer Findings at AAS After more than a year of training workshops, writing proposals, observing, and analyzing data, 12 middle and high sc... read more
feature05-24 11.30.05 When Worlds Collide: Spitzer Investigates Cosmic Forces that Produce New Galaxies When galaxies collide (as our galaxy, the Milky Way, eventually will with the nearby Andromeda galaxy), what happens ... read more	feature05-23 11.29.05 A Planet with Planets? Spitzer Finds Cosmic Oddball Planets are everywhere these days. They have been spotted around more than 150 stars, and evidence is growing that th... read more
feature05-22 11.16.05 Spitzer Studies the Galactic Plane How many stars are currently forming in our Milky Way galaxy? How many of them are high-mass stars? These are questio... read more	feature05-21 11.07.05 Showtime at the Spitzer Science Center It's another sunny Tuesday morning in Southern California and a handful of infrared scientists have flocked to the ro... read more
feature05-20 10.28.05 The Great Galactic Black Widow Unsuspecting prey be warned! Hiding in the darkest corner of the constellation Circinus is a gigantic black widow spi... read more	feature05-19 10.13.05 Cotton Candy Comet Before it was discovered that gravity pulled comets across the sky, many peoples and cultures perceived these cosmic ... read more
feature05-18 09.15.05 Spitzer Studies Planet X On August 23 and 25, NASA's Spitzer Spitzer Space Telescope looked toward the recently discovered planet beyond Pluto... read more	feature05-17 08.25.05 Spitzer Highlights from Two Years in Space Four days after its launch on August 25, 2003, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope opened its infrared eyes for the first ... read more
feature05-16 08.16.05 Students and Teachers on a Mission to Discover National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) scientist Dr. Steve Howell once likened a low mass star in a cataclysmi... read more	feature05-15 08.11.05 10,000 Hours and Counting... On August 15, 2005 at approximately 7:11 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope will begin its 10... read more
feature05-14 08.08.05 Astronomers Release New Imaging Tool Since its launch nearly two years ago, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has taken the public on a journey to the darkes... read more	feature05-13 08.07.05 Spitzer to Observe 2003UB313 Later this month, the Spitzer Space Telescope will look toward the recently-discovered planet beyond Pluto, an object... read more
feature05-12 07.26.05 Spitzer's Legacy Continues For the second time, Spitzer Legacy science teams have released their most recent data and value-added projects to th... read more	feature05-11 07.11.05 Teachers and Students Visit Spitzer Science Center Smiling, Spitzer Staff Scientist Dr. Ranga-Ram Chary silently watched as 17-year old Katie Mills explained a complex ... read more
feature05-10 07.07.05 Spitzer Receives NASA Honors On June 22, 2005, NASA honored the Spitzer Space Telescope's groundbreaking contributions to the field of astronomy a... read more	feature05-09 06.30.05 Spitzer Witnesses Dusty Plumes of Deep Impact Collision Locked in the core of comet Tempel 1 are mystery ingredients that may explain the creation of planets, and the condit... read more
feature05-08 05.31.05 Spitzer at the AAS Twice a year, the American Astronomical Society, or AAS, meets so scientists can share their research with their peer... read more	feature05-07 05.26.05 Urgent! Spitzer Observes Gamma-Ray Burst! The Spitzer Space Telescope is currently executing its first-ever High Impact Target of Opportunity (ToO) observation... read more
feature05-06 05.19.05 Time Allocation Committee Decides Next Year of Spitzer Observations How does an idea become an observation on the Spitzer Space Telescope? Every year in February, astronomers from aroun... read more	feature05-05 04.04.05 Teacher Observations Scheduled Six observing projects (a total of 3.5 hours on the Spitzer Space Telescope) have been approved as part of the NASA S... read more
feature05-04 04.01.05 Spitzer Astronomers Probe Center of Milky Way Spitzer Space Telescope scientists have successfully probed the center of the Milky Way and have come to a stunning c... read more	feature05-03 03.01.05 Spitzer Reaches 10,000 Mark Only 541 days into its mission, Spitzer has reached 10,000 science observations. The telescope's Infrared Spectrograp... read more
feature05-02 02.18.05 A Perfect First Year for Spitzer Since it launched in August 2003, Spitzer has made some remarkable discoveries, thanks to the work of brilliant scien... read more	feature05-01 01.04.05 "Best Use of Imagination & Innovation" On January 1, 2005, Spitzer was honored in the 116th Rose Parade. The JPL-Caltech float, called "A Family of Explorer... read more
feature04-03 12.28.04 Spitzer in the Rose Parade When you watch the 116th Rose Parade on January 1, 2005, you'll see something spectacular: a gigantic Explorer figure... read more	feature04-02 12.15.04 Teacher-Student Research Program Using the Spitzer Space Telescope The Spitzer Science Center (SSC) with the collaboration of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) has desi... read more
feature04-01 08.19.04 How Well Does Spitzer See? So just how good are Spitzer's infrared eyes? Well, the primary definition of that is what we call resolving power. read more

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