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ssc2018-14 10.23.18 Newborn Stars Blow Bubbles in the Cat's Paw Nebula This 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 Telescope Initially 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 Telescope The 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 Jupiters Imagine 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 Star Thin, red veins of energized gas mark the location of one of the larger supernova remnants in the Milky Way galaxy in... read more	ssc2018-07 03.01.18 NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere Much 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, Atmospheres In the year since NASA announced the seven Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, scientists have been working... read more	ssc2018-01 01.11.18 NASA Space Telescopes Provide a 3-D Journey Through the Orion Nebula Astronomers 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 Galaxy An 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 Water A 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 Atmosphere A 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 Exoplanets Beneath 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 Starmaking A 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 Event For 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 Spitzer NASA 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 Disks A 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 Dust One 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 Forecasts Dim 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 System Researchers 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 Exoplanets How 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 Hole Astronomers have watched as a massive, dying star was likely reborn as a black hole. read more	ssc2017-06 05.11.17 'Warm Neptune' Has Unexpectedly Primitive Atmosphere A study combining observations from NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes reveals that the distant planet HAT-P-... read more
ssc2017-05 05.10.17 Observatories Combine to Crack Open the Crab Nebula Astronomers have produced a highly detailed image of the Crab Nebula, by combining data from telescopes spanning near... read more	ssc2017-03 04.26.17 'Iceball' Planet Discovered Through Microlensing Scientists have discovered a new planet with the mass of Earth, orbiting its star at the same distance that we orbit ... read more
ssc2017-02 03.10.17 Ancient Stardust Sheds Light on the First Stars Astronomers have detected a huge mass of glowing stardust in a galaxy seen when the universe was only 4 percent of it... read more	ssc2017-01 02.22.17 NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. ... read more
ssc2017-00 02.14.17 Spitzer Hears Stellar 'Heartbeat' from Planetary Companion A planet and a star are having a tumultuous romance that can be detected from 370 light-years away. NASA's Spitzer Sp... read more	feature16-16 09.21.16 'Milky Way Project' Relaunches Citizen Science Website To most of us, our home galaxy, the Milky Way, seems like mind-boggling, never-ending space. But what does the Milky ... read more
ssc2016-01 03.30.16 NASA’s Spitzer Maps Climate Patterns on a Super-Earth Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have led to the first temperature map of a super-Earth planet -- a r... read more	ssc2015-04 12.03.15 NASA Space Telescopes See Magnified Image of Faintest Galaxy from Early Universe Astronomers harnessing the combined power of NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have found the faintest objec... read more
ssc2015-03 09.10.15 NASA Telescopes Find Galaxy Cluster with Vibrant Heart Astronomers have discovered a rare beast of a galaxy cluster whose heart is bursting with new stars. The unexpected f... read more	ssc2015-02 07.30.15 NASA's Spitzer Confirms Closest Rocky Exoplanet Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have confirmed the discovery of the nearest rocky planet outside ou... read more
ssc2015-01 05.05.15 Astronomers Set a New Galaxy Distance Record An international team of astronomers, led by Yale University and the University of California scientists, pushed back... read more	ssc2014-07 09.24.14 NASA Telescopes Find Clear Skies and Water Vapor on Exoplanet Astronomers using data from three of NASA's space telescopes -- Hubble, Spitzer and Kepler -- have discovered clear s... read more
ssc2014-06 08.28.14 NASA's Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has spotted an eruption of dust around a young star, possibly the result of a smashup ... read more	ssc2014-05 08.27.14 NASA Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy Astronomers have for the first time caught a glimpse of the earliest stages of massive galaxy construction. The build... read more
ssc2014-04 05.07.14 NASA Delivers New Insight into Star Cluster Formation Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and infrared telescopes, astronomers have made an important advance ... read more	ssc2014-03 04.25.14 NASA's Spitzer and WISE Telescopes Find Close, Cold Neighbor of Sun NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered what appears to be the ... read more
ssc2014-02 03.20.14 NASA's Spitzer Telescope Brings 360-Degree View of Galaxy to Our Fingertips Touring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA's new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic presented Thurs... read more	ssc2014-01 01.29.14 NASA and ESA Telescopes Help Solve Mystery of Ultra-Compact, Burned-Out Galaxies Astronomers using NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes, Europe's Herschel Space Observatory, and many ground-ba... read more
ssc2013-09 10.24.13 NASA's Great Observatories Begin Deepest-Ever Probe of the Universe NASA's Hubble, Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes are teaming up to look deeper into the universe than ever before.... read more	ssc2013-08 09.30.13 NASA Space Telescopes Find Patchy Clouds on Exotic World Astronomers using data from NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have created the first cloud map of a planet b... read more
ssc2013-07 08.23.13 NASA's Spitzer Telescope Celebrates 10 Years in Space Ten years after a Delta II rocket launched NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, lighting up the night sky over Cape Canave... read more	ssc2013-06 07.23.13 NASA's Spitzer Observes Gas Emission from Comet ISON Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have observed what most likely are strong carbon dioxide emissions f... read more
ssc2013-05 06.05.13 NASA's Spitzer Sees Milky Way's Blooming Countryside New views from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show blooming stars in our Milky Way galaxy's more barren territories, ... read more	ssc2013-04 02.07.13 NASA Telescopes Discover Strobe-like Flashes Two of NASA's great observatories, the Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, have teamed up to uncover a mysterious in... read more
ssc2013-01 01.08.13 NASA Telescopes See Weather Patterns in Brown Dwarf Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes have probed the stormy atmosphere of a brown dwarf, crea... read more	ssc2013-02 01.08.13 NASA, ESA Telescopes Find Evidence For Asteroid Belt Around Vega Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a large asteroid belt around the star Vega, the second brightest star ... read more
ssc2013-03 01.07.13 Have You Practiced Your Piano and Done Your NASA Research? Did you know that students as young as 7th graders who are juggling soccer, dances, and homework can also conduct NAS... read more	ssc2012-16 11.15.12 NASA Observatories Find Most Distant Galaxy Candidate By combining the power of NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes and one of nature's own natural "zoom lenses" in... read more
ssc2012-15 11.01.12 Asteroid Belts at Just the Right Place are Friendly to Life Solar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if they are dependent on the presence of asteroid belts of just t... read more	ssc2012-14 10.24.12 NASA'S Spitzer Sees Light Of Lonesome Stars A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggests a cause for the mysterious glow of infrared light... read more
ssc2012-13 10.03.12 NASA's Infrared Observatory Measures Expansion Of Universe Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have announced one of the most precise measurements yet of the Hubbl... read more	ssc2012-12 09.19.12 NASA Telescopes Spy Ultra-Distant Galaxy With the combined power of NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes, as well as a cosmic magnification effect, astr... read more
ssc2012-11 07.18.12 Spitzer Finds Possible Exoplanet Smaller than Earth Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of E... read more	ssc2012-10 06.26.12 Astronomers Spot Rare Arc From Hefty Galaxy Cluster Seeing is believing, except when you don't believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have... read more
ssc2012-09 06.19.12 Most Quasars Live on Snacks, Not Large Meals Black holes in the early universe needed a few snacks rather than one giant meal to fuel their quasars and help them ... read more	ssc2012-08 06.07.12 NASA's Spitzer Finds First Objects Burned Furiously The faint, lumpy glow given off by the very first objects in the universe may have been detected with the best precis... read more
ssc2012-07 05.08.12 NASA's Spitzer Sees The Light of Alien 'Super Earth' NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system for t... read more	ssc2012-06 04.24.12 NASA'S Spitzer Finds Galaxy with Split Personality While some galaxies are rotund and others are slender disks like our spiral Milky Way, new observations from NASA's S... read more
ssc2012-05 04.05.12 NASA Extends Spitzer, Planck, Kepler Missions NASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. -- Kepler, the Spi... read more	ssc2012-04 02.29.12 Young Stars Flicker Amidst Clouds of Gas and Dust Astronomers have spotted young stars in the Orion nebula changing right before their eyes, thanks to the European Spa... read more
ssc2012-03 02.22.12 NASA's Spitzer Finds Solid Buckyballs in Space Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered buckyballs in a solid... read more	ssc2012-01 01.10.12 Herschel and Spitzer See Nearby Galaxies' Stardust The cold dust that builds blazing stars is revealed in new images that combine observations from the Herschel Space O... read more
ssc2012-02 01.10.12 Before They Were Stars: New Image Shows Space Nursery The stars we see today weren't always as serene as they appear, floating alone in the dark of night. Most stars, like... read more	ssc2011-10 12.21.11 NASA Telescopes Help Find Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time A remote, blob-shaped galaxy has been found bursting with stars by NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. read more
ssc2011-09 10.24.11 NASA Telescopes Help Solve Ancient Supernova Mystery A mystery that began nearly 2,000 years ago, when Chinese astronomers witnessed what would turn out to be an explodin... read more	ssc2011-08 10.19.11 NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm in Nearby Solar System NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. read more
ssc2011-07 06.30.11 NASA's Spitzer Finds Distant Galaxies Grazed on Gas Galaxies once thought of as voracious tigers are more like grazing cows, according to a new study using NASA's Spitze... read more	ssc2011-06 05.26.11 Spitzer Sees Crystal 'Rain' in Outer Clouds of Infant Star Tiny crystals of a green mineral called olivine are falling down like rain on a burgeoning star, according to observa... read more
ssc2011-05 04.12.11 NASA Telescopes Help Discover Surprisingly Early Galaxy Astronomers have uncovered one of the earliest galaxies to appear in the distant universe, with stars that formed 13.... read more	ssc2011-04 04.04.11 NASA's Spitzer Discovers Time-Delayed Jets Around Young Star Astronomers have discovered that two symmetrical jets shooting away from opposite sides of a blossoming star are expe... read more
ssc2011-03 02.10.11 New View of Family Life in the North America Nebula Stars at all stages of development, from dusty little tots to young adults, are on display in a new image from NASA's... read more	ssc2011-02 01.12.11 NASA Telescopes Help Identify Most Distant Galaxy Cluster Astronomers have uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancie... read more
ssc2011-01 01.12.11 Cosmology Standard Candle Not So Standard After All Astronomers have turned up the first direct proof that "standard candles" used to illuminate the size of the universe... read more	ssc2010-10 12.08.10 NASA's Spitzer Reveals First Carbon-Rich Planet Astronomers have discovered that a huge, searing-hot planet orbiting another star is loaded with an unusual amount of... read more
ssc2010-09 10.27.10 Space Buckyballs Thrive, Finds NASA Spitzer Telescope Astronomers have discovered bucket loads of buckyballs in space. They used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to find the... read more	ssc2010-08 10.19.10 Astronomers Find Weird, Warm Spot on an Exoplanet Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a distant planet with a warm spot in the wrong place. read more
ssc2010-07 08.23.10 Pulverized Planet Dust May Lie Around Double Stars Tight double-star systems might not be the best places for life to spring up, according to a new study using data fro... read more	ssc2010-06 07.22.10 NASA Telescope Finds Elusive Buckyballs in Space for First Time Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered carbon molecules, known as "buckyballs," in space fo... read more
ssc2010-05 04.21.10 'This Planet Tastes Funny,' According to Spitzer Telescope NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered something odd about a distant planet -- it lacks methane, an ingredient... read more	ssc2010-04 03.29.10 Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust: Chandra/Spitzer Image A new image from NASA's Chandra and Spitzer space telescopes shows the dusty remains of a collapsed star. The dust is... read more
ssc2010-03 03.17.10 NASA's Spitzer Unearths Primitive Black Holes Astronomers have come across what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black holes known.... read more	ssc2010-02 01.05.10 Galaxy Exposes its Dusty Inner Workings in New Spitzer Image NASA'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 Close For almost two centuries, humans have looked up at a bright star called Epsilon Aurigae and watched with their own ey... read more	ssc2009-22 11.30.09 Spitzer to Unveil Biggest Milky Way View at Adler Planetarium In 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 Dwarf NASA'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 Astronomy A never-before-seen view of the turbulent heart of our Milky Way galaxy is being unveiled by NASA today. This event w... read more
ssc2009-19 10.06.09 NASA Space Telescope Discovers Largest Ring Around Saturn NASA'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 Material Astronomers 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 Formation A 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 Flying NASA'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 Eyes NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is starting a second career and taking its first shots of the cosmos since warming up. read more	ssc2009-14 07.23.09 NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-this-World Galaxy NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark â a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at ... read more
ssc2009-13 06.10.09 Baby Stars Finally Found in Jumbled Galactic Center Astronomers have at last uncovered newborn stars at the frenzied center of our Milky Way galaxy. The discovery was ma... read more	ssc2009-12 05.15.09 NASA's Spitzer Begins Warm Mission After more than five-and-a-half years of probing the cool cosmos, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has run out of the c... read more
ssc2009-11 05.13.09 Spitzer Catches Star Cooking Up Comet Crystals Scientists have long wondered how tiny silicate crystals, which need sizzling high temperatures to form, have found t... read more	ssc2009-10 05.06.09 NASA's Spitzer Telescope Warms up to New Career The primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five and a half years of probin... read more
ssc2009-09 04.07.09 Cool Stars Have Different Mix of Life-Forming Chemicals Life on Earth is thought to have arisen from a hot soup of chemicals. Does this same soup exist on planets around oth... read more	ssc2009-08 04.03.09 M33: A Close Neighbor Reveals its True Size and Splendor This new image of the Triangulum galaxy is being released as part of the 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes' event fo... read more

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	August 22 NASA's Exoplanet Excursions 360
	August 17 Spitzer's Continuing Adventures
	February 22 Homes Away From Home? Revisiting the Seven Planets of TRAPPIST-1
	February 5 Not So Strange New Worlds
	February 6 Imagining the Planets of TRAPPIST-1

	October 23 The Cat's Paw Nebula IRAC
	October 23 The Cat's Paw Nebula MIPS & IRAC
	August 9 Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b
	August 2 Spitzer Spies Supernova Remnant HBH3
	June 16 TDE observed in Arp299B