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01.08.13

Rocky Ring of Debris Around Vega

This artist's concept illustrates an asteroid belt around the bright star Vega. view image

ssc2011-08a

10.19.11

It's Raining Comets

This artist's conception illustrates a storm of comets around a star near our own, called Eta Corvi. view image

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09.02.10

Rendezvous with Eros

This 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 Star

NASA'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 Rubble

This 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 Comet

NASA'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 Pieces

This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the broken Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3 skimming alo... view image

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05.05.06

Comet Stepping Stones

This 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 Star

This artist's concept illustrates a comet being torn to shreds around a white dwarf called G29-38. NASA's Spitzer Spa... view image

ssc2005-18c

09.07.05

Ingredients of a Comet

Astronomers 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 Soup

Hungry for a comet? Perhaps not, but astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Deep Impact m... view image

ssc2005-18a

09.07.05

Tempel 1's Secret Ingredients Revealed

This graph shows the two spectra acquired by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope before (middle) and after (bottom) it obs... view image

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07.18.05

Jupiter-Family Comets Johnson and Shoemaker-Levy 3

These 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 1

These 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 Belt

This 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 Debris

This 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 AW197

Spitzer View of Kuiper Belt object 2002 AW197 view image

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03.15.04

Sedna's Night Sky Location

This shows where the newly discovered planet-like body, dubbed "Sedna," would lie in the evening skies at around 8:00... view image

ssc2004-05d

03.15.04

Orbit Comparisons

These 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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