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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 |
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 |
sig13-010a 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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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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