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sig15-014 11.24.15 Swarm of CometsThis illustration shows a star behind a shattered comet which blocked the light of the star as they passed in front o... view image |
sig14-018 06.19.14 Solid as a Rock? Porosity of AsteroidsAsteroids can differ in the degree of porosity, or the amount of empty space that makes up their structures. At one e... view image |
sig14-017 06.19.14 The Spacious Structure of Asteroid 2011 MDObservations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal new information about the structure of 2011 MD, a small aster... view image |
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 |
sig14-019 06.19.14 How to Measure the Size of an AsteroidObservations of infrared light coming from asteroids provide a better estimate of their true sizes than visible-light... view image |
sig14-007 05.15.14 Spitzer's Archive of AsteroidsA new software tool lets astronomers quickly comb through existing datasets to recover detections of newly-discovered... 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 |
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 |
sig13-010a 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 |
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 |
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 |
ssc2005-18c 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 |
ssc2005-04a 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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ssc2004-05d 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 |
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 |
ssc2004-05b 03.15.04 Artist's Conception of SednaArtist's conception of Sedna, a planet-like object so far away that the Sun appears as an extremely bright star inste... 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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