ssc2019-14 08.19.19 NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's SurfaceA 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 GalaxyIt 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, SpitzerTwo 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 TelescopeUnlike 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 LongAfter 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 PortraitThe 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 UniverseNASA'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 HoleOn 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 StarsWhat 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 TelescopeUsing 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, GlassWe 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 'OumuamuaIn 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 NebulaThis 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 TelescopeInitially 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 TelescopeThe 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 JupitersImagine 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 StarThin, 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 AtmosphereMuch 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, AtmospheresIn the year since NASA announced the seven Earth-sized planets of the TRAPPIST-1 system, scientists have been working... read more |
