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ssc2020-08 01.30.20 NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Mission of Astronomical Discovery After more than 16 years studying the universe in infrared light, revealing new wonders in our solar system, our gala... read more	ssc2020-06 01.27.20 Tarantula Nebula Spins Web of Mystery in Spitzer Image The Tarantula Nebula, seen in this image by the Spitzer Space Telescope, was one of the first targets studied by the ... read more
ssc2020-05 01.24.20 Operate a NASA Great Observatory With New VR Experience A new virtual reality experience lets users get a taste of what it's like to explore the cosmos with the Spitzer Spac... read more	ssc2020-04 01.24.20 For Hottest Planet, a Major Meltdown, Study Shows In the scorching atmosphere of exoplanet KELT-9b, even molecules are torn to shreds. read more
ssc2020-03 01.22.20 NASA Celebrates the Legacy of the Spitzer Space Telescope NASA is celebrating the legacy of one of its Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope, which has studied the ... read more	ssc2020-01 01.07.20 NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star's habitable zone,... read more
ssc2019-18 12.19.19 Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Perseus Molecular Cloud, a massive collection of gas and dus... read more	ssc2019-17 10.30.19 Spitzer Telescope Spots a Ghoulish Gourd Look closer to see why scientists studying this distant cloud of dust and gas think it resembles a cosmic jack-o'-lan... read more
ssc2019-16 09.30.19 Spitzer Spots a Starry Region Bursting With Bubbles This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are infl... read more	ssc2019-15 08.27.19 Sixteen Images for Spitzer's Sweet 16 NASA launched its Spitzer Space Telescope into orbit around the Sun on Aug. 25, 2003. Since then, the observatory has... read more
ssc2019-14 08.19.19 NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a ... read more	ssc2019-13 08.07.19 NASA's Spitzer Spies a Perfectly Sideways Galaxy It might look like a lightsaber floating in space, but the red beam in the middle of this image is actually a galaxy ... read more
ssc2019-12 07.02.19 Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer Two NASA space telescopes have teamed up to identify, for the first time, the detailed chemical "fingerprint" of a pl... read more	ssc2019-11 06.26.19 A Whirlpool 'Warhol' from NASA's Spitzer Telescope Unlike Andy Warhol's famous silkscreen grids of repeating images rendered in different colors, the varying hues of th... read more
ssc2019-10 06.13.19 How NASA's Spitzer Has Stayed Alive for So Long After nearly 16 years of exploring the cosmos in infrared light, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope will be switched off ... read more	ssc2019-08 05.31.19 NASA's Spitzer Captures Stellar Family Portrait The evolution of stellar families - born from the same clumps of gas and dust - is just some of what's on display in ... read more
ssc2019-06 05.08.19 New Clues About How Ancient Galaxies Lit up the Universe NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the universe's earliest galaxies were brighter than expected... read more	ssc2019-05 04.25.19 The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black Hole On April 10, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole's event horizon, t... read more
ssc2019-04 03.27.19 'Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby Stars What looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrare... read more	ssc2019-03 02.27.19 Why Do Some Galactic Unions Lead to Doom? Three images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show pairs of galaxies on the cusp of cosmic consolidations. Though ... read more
ssc2019-01 01.07.19 Citizen Scientists Find New World with NASA Telescope Using data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, citizen scientists have discovered a planet roughly twice the size of ... read more	ssc2018-16 11.16.18 Exploding Stars Make Key Ingredient in Sand, Glass We are all, quite literally, made of star dust. Many of the chemicals that compose our planet and our bodies were for... read more
ssc2018-15 11.14.18 NASA Learns More About Interstellar Visitor 'Oumuamua In November 2017, scientists pointed NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope toward the object known as 'Oumuamua - the first ... read more	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
ssc2018-02 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	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
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
ssc2011-01 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	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
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

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