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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 |
ssc2018-02 01.11.18 NASA's Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant GalaxyAn 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 NebulaAstronomers 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 WaterA 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 AtmosphereA 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 ExoplanetsBeneath 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 StarmakingA 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 EventFor 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 SpitzerNASA 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 DisksA 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 DustOne 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 ForecastsDim objects called brown dwarfs, less massive than the Sun but more massive than Jupiter, have powerful winds and clo... read more |
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August 22 NASA's Exoplanet Excursions 360 |
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August 17 Spitzer's Continuing Adventures |
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February 22 Homes Away From Home? Revisiting the Seven Planets of TRAPPIST-1 |
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February 6 Imagining the Planets of TRAPPIST-1 |
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February 5 Not So Strange New Worlds |
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November 16 Supernova Remnant G54 |
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October 23 The Cat's Paw Nebula IRAC |
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October 23 The Cat's Paw Nebula MIPS & IRAC |
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August 9 Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b |
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August 2 Spitzer Spies Supernova Remnant HBH3 |
