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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
ssc2013-02 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	ssc2013-01 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
ssc2013-03 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	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	ssc2010-01 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
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	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
ssc2009-07 04.02.09 NASA Joins 'Around the World in 80 Telescopes' A collection of NASA missions will be involved in a live event Friday, April 3, that will allow the public to get an ... read more	ssc2009-06 03.16.09 Hearts of Galaxies Close in for Cosmic Train Wreck A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope offers a rare view of an imminent collision between the cores of two ... read more
ssc2009-05 03.03.09 Mission Status Report Spitzer Space Telescope NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has resumed normal operations after entering standby mode on Friday, Feb. 27, 2009, at... read more	ssc2009-04 02.25.09 NASA Announces 2009 Astronomy and Astrophysics Fellows NASA has selected fellows in three areas of astronomy and astrophysics for its Einstein, Hubble and Sagan Fellowships... read more
ssc2009-03 02.10.09 NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy Galileo first turned his telescope to the heavens in 1609, marking the dawn of modern astronomy. To commemorate 400 y... read more	ssc2009-02 01.28.09 Astronomers Observe Planet with Wild Temperature Swings NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has observed a planet that heats up to red-hot temperatures in a matter of hours befor... read more
ssc2009-01 01.05.09 Dead Stars Tell Story of Planet Birth Astronomers have turned to an unexpected place to study the evolution of planets -- dead stars. read more	ssc2008-22 12.10.08 Astronomers Find the Two Dimmest Stellar Bulbs It's a tie! The new record-holder for dimmest known star-like object in the universe goes to twin "failed" stars, or ... read more
ssc2008-21 12.08.08 Rivers of Gas Flow Around Stars in New Space Image A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a turbulent star-forming region, where rivers of gas and stella... read more	ssc2008-20 11.11.08 Dusty Shock Waves Generate Planet Ingredients Shock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets, according to new observations ... read more
ssc2008-19 10.27.08 Closest Planetary System Hosts Two Asteroid Belts New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope indicate that the nearest planetary system to our own has two as... read more	ssc2008-18 10.13.08 NASA's Spitzer Gets Sneak Peek Inside Comet Holmes When comet Holmes unexpectedly erupted in 2007, professional and amateur astronomers around the world turned their te... read more
ssc2008-17 10.08.08 Splashy Portrait Helps Explain How Stars Form This painterly portrait of a star-forming cloud, called NGC 346, is a combination of multiwavelength light from NASA'... read more	ssc2008-16 10.01.08 Infrared Echoes give NASA's Spitzer a Supernova Flashback Hot spots near the shattered remains of an exploded star are echoing the blast's first moments, say scientists using ... read more
ssc2008-15 08.22.08 Generations of Stars Pose for Family Portrait A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope tells a tale of life and death amidst a rich family history. The stri... read more	ssc2008-14 07.21.08 Spitzer Reveals 'No Organics' Zone Around Pinwheel Galaxy The Pinwheel galaxy is gussied up in infrared light in a new picture from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. read more
ssc2008-13 07.15.08 Brightest Star in the Galaxy has New Competition A contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the... read more	ssc2008-12 07.10.08 Rare 'Star-Making Machine' Found In Distant Universe Astronomers have uncovered an extreme stellar machine -- a galaxy in the very remote universe pumping out stars at a ... read more
ssc2008-11 06.03.08 Spitzer Captures Stellar Coming of Age in Our Galaxy More than 800,000 snapshots from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have been stitched together to create a new "coming o... read more	ssc2008-10 06.03.08 Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go Missing New images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are shedding light on the true structure of the Milky Way, revealing t... read more
ssc2008-09 05.29.08 Scientists Hold Séance for Supernova Astronomers have unearthed secrets from the grave of a star that blasted apart in a supernova explosion long ago. By ... read more	ssc2008-08 05.28.08 Strange Ring Found Circling Dead Star NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a bizarre ring of material around the magnetic remains of a star that blaste... read more
ssc2008-07 04.10.08 Spitzer Sees Shining Stellar Sphere Millions of clustered stars glisten like an iridescent opal in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. read more	ssc2008-06 03.13.08 Spitzer Finds Organics and Water Where New Planets May Grow Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered large amounts of simple organic gases and water vapo... read more
ssc2008-05 02.17.08 Many, Perhaps Most, Nearby Sun-Like Stars May Form Rocky Planets Astronomers have discovered that terrestrial planets might form around many, if not most, of the nearby sun-like star... read more	ssc2008-04 02.12.08 Astronomers Eye Ultra-Young, Bright Galaxy in Early Universe NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, with a boost from a natural "zoom lens," have uncovered what may be one o... read more
ssc2008-03 02.11.08 Spitzer Catches Young Stars in Their Baby Blanket of Dust Newborn stars peek out from beneath their natal blanket of dust in this dynamic image of the Rho Ophiuchi dark cloud ... read more	ssc2008-02 01.15.08 NASA Unveils Cosmic Images Book in Braille for Blind Readers At a ceremony held today at the National Federation of the Blind, NASA unveiled a new book that brings majestic image... read more
ssc2008-01 01.10.08 Even Thin Galaxies Can Grow Fat Black Holes NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected plump black holes where least expected -- skinny galaxies. read more	ssc2007-20 12.20.07 10,000 Earths' Worth of Fresh Dust Found Near Star Explosion Astronomers have at last found definitive evidence that the universe's first dust -- the celestial stuff that seeded ... read more
ssc2007-19 11.29.07 Embryonic Star Captured with Jets Flaring A developing star wrapped in a black cocoon of dust is seen sprouting giant jets in a new image from NASA's Spitzer S... read more	ssc2007-18 11.20.07 Astronomers Say Moons Like Ours Are Uncommon The next time you take a moonlit stroll, or admire a full, bright-white moon looming in the night sky, you might coun... read more
ssc2007-17 10.25.07 Missing Black Hole Report: Hundreds Found! Astronomers have unmasked hundreds of black holes hiding deep inside dusty galaxies billions of light-years away. read more	ssc2007-16 10.09.07 Astronomers Find Dust in the Wind of Black Holes The hit song that proclaimed, "All we are is dust in the wind," may have some cosmic truth to it. New findings from N... read more
ssc2007-15 09.06.07 NASA Space Telescopes Find 'Lego-Block' Galaxies in Early Universe NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes have joined forces to discover nine of the smallest, faintest, most compac... read more	ssc2007-14 08.29.07 Water Vapor Seen 'Raining Down' on Young Star System NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected enough water vapor to fill the oceans on Earth five times inside the coll... read more
ssc2007-13 08.06.07 NASA's Spitzer Spies Monster Galaxy Pileup Four galaxies are slamming into each other and kicking up billions of stars in one of the largest cosmic smash-ups ev... read more	ssc2007-12 07.11.07 NASA's Spitzer Finds Water Vapor on Hot, Alien Planet A scorching-hot gas planet beyond our solar system is steaming up with water vapor, according to new observations fro... read more
ssc2007-11 05.30.07 NASA Space Telescope Gives Scientists Depth Perception Astronomers now have a new "eye" for determining the distance to certain mysterious bodies in and around our Milky Wa... read more	ssc2007-10 05.28.07 Spitzer Nets Thousands of Galaxies in a Giant Cluster In just a short amount of time, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has bagged thousands of previously unknown dwarf galax... read more
ssc2007-09 05.09.07 NASA Finds Extremely Hot Planet, Makes First Exoplanet Weather Map Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have learned what the weather is like on two distant, exotic worlds.... read more	ssc2007-08 04.18.07 Astronomers Map Out Planetary Danger Zone Astronomers have laid down the cosmic equivalent of yellow "caution" tape around super hot stars, marking the zones w... read more
ssc2007-07 04.12.07 The Seven Sisters Pose for Spitzer -- and for You! The Seven Sisters, also known as the Pleiades, seem to float on a bed of feathers in a new infrared image from NASA's... read more	ssc2007-06 04.10.07 Mystery Spiral Arms Explained? Using a quartet of space observatories, University of Maryland astronomers may have cracked a 45-year mystery surroun... read more

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	February 21 Robot Astronomy Talk Show In Progress: The Mass of Asteroids
	February 8 Strobe-like Flashes Discovered in a Suspected Binary Protostar
	August 7 Possible Nearby Exoplanet Smaller than Earth (Update)
	July 18 Flying Out to GJ 436 and its Planets
	May 21 Cygnus X Marks the Spot (Gallery Explorer)

	June 5 Galaxies in Hiding
	June 5 Life and Death Intermingled
	June 5 Stars Shoot Jets in Cosmic Playground
	June 5 Galaxies in Hiding
	June 5 Bubbles Within Bubbles (annotated)