![]() 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 |
![]() 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 |
![]() ssc2005-18b 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 |
![]() 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 |
![]() 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 |
![]() ssc2005-04a 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 |