feature13-07 09.24.13 How Engineers Revamped Spitzer to Probe ExoplanetsEven though NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was never designed to study exoplanets, it has become one of the world's p... read more |
feature13-06 09.10.13 Comet Found Hiding in Plain SightNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered secrets of the "asteroid" called Don Quixote, revealing its true comet n... read more |
feature13-05 09.05.13 Coldest Brown Dwarfs Blur Star, Planet LinesResearchers are getting to know some of our sun's closest and smallest neighbors. read more |
feature13-04 08.01.13 Monster Galaxies Lose Their Appetite With AgeOur universe is filled with gobs of galaxies, bound together by gravity into larger families called clusters. Lying a... read more |
feature13-03 07.31.13 Spitzer Discovers Young Stars with a 'Hula Hoop'A pair of stars peeks out from a tilted disk twirling around them, allowing astronomers to monitor their "blinking" p... read more |
feature13-03 05.16.13 Galaxy's Ring of FireThis 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 DishAstronomers 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 StarsStars 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 CloudsA 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 WavesA 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 IgniteNASA'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 AngelesThe 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 RockA 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 WayVolunteers 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 LebanonThey 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, MuseumsImagine 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 GalaxyLike 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 LightThe 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 SeenAlthough 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 StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has gathered surprising new details about a supersized and superheated version of Eart... read more |
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March 19 Catching a GLIMPSE of the Milky Way |
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March 19 Panning Through the Milky Way |
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February 12 Fusion vs. Fission |
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August 29 10 Years of Innovation |
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