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ssc2013-02a 01.08.13 Rocky Ring of Debris Around VegaThis artist's concept illustrates an asteroid belt around the bright star Vega. view image |
ssc2011-08a 10.19.11 It's Raining CometsThis artist's conception illustrates a storm of comets around a star near our own, called Eta Corvi. 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 |
ssc2009-01b 01.05.09 Asteroid 'Bites the Dust' Around Dead StarNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope set its infrared eyes upon the dusty remains of shredded asteroids around several dead... view image |
ssc2008-19a 10.27.08 Epsilon Eridani: Double the RubbleThis artist's conception shows the closest known planetary system to our own, called Epsilon Eridani. Observations fr... 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 |
ssc2006-04b 01.11.06 Comet 'Bites the Dust' Around Dead StarThis artist's concept illustrates a comet being torn to shreds around a white dwarf called G29-38. NASA's Spitzer Spa... 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 |
ssc2005-18c 09.07.05 Ingredients of a CometAstronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Deep Impact mission are putting together a recipe ... view image |
ssc2005-18b 09.07.05 How to Make Comet SoupHungry for a comet? Perhaps not, but astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Deep Impact m... 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 |
ssc2005-13a 06.02.05 Space Eyes See Comet Tempel 1These artist's concepts of Tempel 1 simulate an optical view of the comet (left), next to the simulated infrared view... 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 |
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ssc2004-05c 03.15.04 Size ComparisonsThe artist's rendition shows the newly discovered planet-like object, dubbed "Sedna," in relation to other bodies in ... view image |
ssc2004-05d 03.15.04 Orbit ComparisonsThese four panels show the location of the newly discovered planet-like object, dubbed "Sedna," which lies in the far... view image |
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June 18 Bringing Astronomy to Kids in Crisis |
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March 18 Our Proposal is Written, Now the Research Begins! |
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January 16 My Visit to AAS with NITARP |
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October 15 NITARP 2013 Class of Educators |
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August 24 Happy 9th Birthday, Spitzer! |
