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![]() feature12-03 03.07.12 Citizen Scientists Reveal a Bubbly Milky WayVolunteers are helping astronomers find star-blown bubbles throughout our Milky Way galaxy. read more |
![]() feature15-04 04.09.15 Our Sun Came Late to the Milky Way's Star-Birth PartyOur Sun missed the stellar "baby boom" that erupted in our young Milky Way galaxy 10 billion years ago. During that t... read more |
![]() ssc2008-10 06.03.08 Two of the Milky Way's Spiral Arms Go MissingNew images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are shedding light on the true structure of the Milky Way, revealing t... read more |
![]() feature16-16 09.21.16 'Milky Way Project' Relaunches Citizen Science WebsiteTo most of us, our home galaxy, the Milky Way, seems like mind-boggling, never-ending space. But what does the Milky ... read more |
![]() feature10-12 07.28.10 Into the Wild: Spitzer Space Telescope Surveys the Milky Way's OutbackA new survey by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has turned up treasures aplenty in the outer regions of the Milky Way,... read more |
![]() feature10-03 03.10.10 Spitzer Detects the 'Heartbeat' of Star Formation in the Milky Way GalaxyAstronomers have used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope rather like a doctor's stethoscope to listen in on the "heartbea... read more |
![]() ssc2008-11 06.03.08 Spitzer Captures Stellar Coming of Age in Our GalaxyMore than 800,000 snapshots from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have been stitched together to create a new "coming o... read more |
![]() feature12-08 12.19.12 Armchair Science: Bag and Tag Glowing Galactic CloudsA new galactic game launches today that lets citizen scientists identify the glowing clouds where future stars will b... read more |
![]() ssc2014-02 03.20.14 NASA's Spitzer Telescope Brings 360-Degree View of Galaxy to Our FingertipsTouring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA's new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic presented Thurs... read more |
![]() ssc2013-05 06.05.13 NASA's Spitzer Sees Milky Way's Blooming CountrysideNew views from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show blooming stars in our Milky Way galaxy's more barren territories, ... read more |
![]() feature16-11 07.21.16 Seeing the Milky Way's Giant Black Hole with New EyesThe Spitzer Space Telescope is exploring Sagittarius A*, the black hole in the center of the Milky Way. This supermas... read more |
![]() ssc2019-15 08.27.19 Sixteen Images for Spitzer's Sweet 16NASA launched its Spitzer Space Telescope into orbit around the Sun on Aug. 25, 2003. Since then, the observatory has... read more |
![]() ssc2004-16 10.12.04 Newfound Star Cluster May Be Final Milky Way 'Fossil'Just when astronomers thought they might have dug up the last of our galaxy's "fossils," they've discovered a new one... read more |
![]() feature15-01 01.27.15 Citizen Scientists Lead Astronomers to Mystery Objects in Space"Hmm, what's that?" Simply by asking the question, volunteers have led researchers to illuminate a little-known stage... read more |
![]() ssc2020-14 08.25.20 Where Are Stars Made? NASA's Spitzer Spies a Hot SpotThe nebula known as W51 is one of the most active star-forming regions in the Milky Way galaxy. First identified in 1... read more |
![]() ssc2004-12 06.28.04 Seeing Double: Spitzer Captures Our Galaxy's TwinWhat would our Milky Way galaxy look like if we could travel outside it and snap a picture? It might look a lot like ... read more |
![]() ssc2009-13 06.10.09 Baby Stars Finally Found in Jumbled Galactic CenterAstronomers have at last uncovered newborn stars at the frenzied center of our Milky Way galaxy. The discovery was ma... read more |
![]() feature05-26 12.12.05 Spitzer Exposes Our Galaxy's Deepest SecretsAstronomers have at last found inner light! Only, they didn't find it through the typical Earthly methods of meditati... read more |
![]() feature10-19 11.18.10 Spitzer Reveals a Buried Explosion Sparked by a Galactic Train WreckAstronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found a stunning burst of star formation that beams out as much... read more |
![]() ssc2011-07 06.30.11 NASA's Spitzer Finds Distant Galaxies Grazed on GasGalaxies once thought of as voracious tigers are more like grazing cows, according to a new study using NASA's Spitze... read more |