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ssc2013-05 06.05.13 NASA's Spitzer Sees Milky Way's Blooming CountrysideNew 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 FlashesTwo 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 DwarfAstronomers 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 VegaAstronomers 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 CandidateBy 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 LifeSolar 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 StarsA 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 UniverseAstronomers 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 GalaxyWith 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 EarthAstronomers 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 ClusterSeeing 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 MealsBlack 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 FuriouslyThe 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 PersonalityWhile 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 MissionsNASA 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 DustAstronomers 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 SpaceAstronomers 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' StardustThe 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 NurseryThe 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 TimeA 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 MysteryA 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 SystemNASA'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 GasGalaxies 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 StarTiny 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 GalaxyAstronomers 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 StarAstronomers 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 NebulaStars 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 ClusterAstronomers 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 AllAstronomers 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 PlanetAstronomers 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 TelescopeAstronomers 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 ExoplanetObservations 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 StarsTight 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 TimeAstronomers 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 TelescopeNASA'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 ImageA 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 HolesAstronomers 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 ImageNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an action-packed picture of the nearby Small Magellanic Cloud, a small ga... read more |
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June 5 Life and Death Intermingled |
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June 5 Galaxies in Hiding |
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June 5 Galaxies in Hiding |
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June 5 Stars Shoot Jets in Cosmic Playground |
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June 5 Bubbles Within Bubbles (annotated) |
