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sig14-016 06.19.14 I Spy a Little Asteroid With My Infrared EyeThis image of asteroid 2011 MD was taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in Feb. 2014, over a period of 20 hours. T... view image |
sig13-010a 09.10.13 Spitzer Spies a Comet Coma and TailDon Quixote's coma and tail -- features of comets -- as revealed in infrared light by Spitzer. The coma appears as a ... view image |
sig13-010b 09.10.13 Spitzer Spies a Comet Coma and TailThis image represents a more elaborate image processing step, in which the glow of the coma has been removed based on... view image |
sig13-010 09.10.13 Spitzer Spies a Comet Coma and TailWith the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered that what was thought to be a large aste... view image |
ssc2013-06a 07.23.13 Spitzer Eyes Comet ISONThese images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope of Comet ISON were taken on June 13, when ISON was 310 million miles... view image |
sig10-019 09.02.10 Rendezvous with ErosThis image, taken by NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous mission in 2000, shows a close-up view of Eros, an asteroi... view image |
ssc2008-18a 10.10.08 Anatomy of a Busted CometNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured the picture on the left of comet Holmes in March 2008, five months after the ... view image |
ssc2006-13a 05.10.06 A Million Comet PiecesThis infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the broken Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3 skimming alo... view image |
sig06-011 05.05.06 Comet Stepping StonesThis image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows three of the many fragments making up Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachm... view image |
ssc2005-18a 09.07.05 Tempel 1's Secret Ingredients RevealedThis graph shows the two spectra acquired by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope before (middle) and after (bottom) it obs... view image |
sig05-008 07.18.05 Jupiter-Family Comets Johnson and Shoemaker-Levy 3These infrared images of the Jupiter-family comets Johnson (top) and Shoemaker-Levy 3 (bottom) were both taken with S... view image |
ssc2005-10a 04.20.05 Super-Comet or Big Asteroid BeltThis graph of data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope demonstrates that the dust around a nearby star called HD 6983... view image |
ssc2005-04a 01.11.05 Riding a Trail of DebrisThis image taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the comet Encke riding along its pebbly trail of debris (lon... view image |
ssc2004-21a 11.10.04 Kuiper Belt Object 2002 AW197Spitzer View of Kuiper Belt object 2002 AW197 view image |
ssc2004-05e 03.15.04 Sedna's Night Sky LocationThis shows where the newly discovered planet-like body, dubbed "Sedna," would lie in the evening skies at around 8:00... view image |
ssc2003-06j 12.18.03 Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1NASA's new Spitzer Space Telescope has captured an image of an unusual comet that experiences frequent outbursts, whi... view image |
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