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feature12-02 01.25.12 Astronomical Success: Caltech's George Helou Honored by Home Country of Lebanon They say there is no place like home. For Caltech's George Helou, the essence of that phrase carries over to the recognition... read more	feature12-01 01.11.12 Teacher Program Brings NASA Research to High Schools, Middle Schools, Museums Imagine you are a high school student walking into your science class in September and you learn that your teacher is... read more
ssc2012-02 01.10.12 Before They Were Stars: New Image Shows Space Nursery The stars we see today weren't always as serene as they appear, floating alone in the dark of night. Most stars, likely... read more	ssc2012-01 01.10.12 Herschel and Spitzer See Nearby Galaxies' Stardust The cold dust that builds blazing stars is revealed in new images that combine observations from the Herschel Space Observatory... read more
ssc2011-10 12.21.11 NASA Telescopes Help Find Rare Galaxy at Dawn of Time A remote, blob-shaped galaxy has been found bursting with stars by NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. read more	partner076 12.01.11 Strange New “Species” of Ultra-Red Galaxy Discovered In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden... read more
partner075 11.29.11 The Shape of the Universe: Recent Deep Space Photography The Shape of the Universe is an exhibition of deep space photography, curated by artist David Em. The exhibition features... read more	feature11-13 11.23.11 Doubling Up on the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy Like the Milky Way, Messier 83 is classified as a barred spiral galaxy due to the bar-like pattern of stars that run through... read more
feature11-12 11.10.11 The Tarantula Glows with X-rays and Infrared Light The Tarantula nebula can be seen here in a web of dust and multimillion-degree gas. read more	ssc2011-09 10.24.11 NASA Telescopes Help Solve Ancient Supernova Mystery A mystery that began nearly 2,000 years ago, when Chinese astronomers witnessed what would turn out to be an exploding... read more
ssc2011-08 10.19.11 NASA's Spitzer Detects Comet Storm in Nearby Solar System NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. read more	feature11-11 10.19.11 Spitzer Finds the Coldest Companion to a Star Ever Seen Although we all want to think that the people we keep company with are "cool," when it comes to the cosmos, no one has... read more
feature11-10 09.26.11 Spitzer Detects a Steaming Super-Earth Eclipsing Its Star NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has gathered surprising new details about a supersized and superheated version of Earth... read more	feature11-09 08.15.11 Honeycomb Carbon Crystals Possibly Detected in Space Flat flakes of carbon have been tentatively spotted in space. read more
feature11-08 08.10.11 A Cosmic Inkblot Test What do you see when you look at this strange mix of shapes from space? read more	feature11-07 08.09.11 Spitzer Status Update Spitzer scientists and engineers are beginning tests to study the feasibility of switching to the spacecraft's Inertial... read more
feature11-06 07.20.11 Spitzer's Spider Web of Stars Stars appear to be caught in a galactic web in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. read more	ssc2011-07 06.30.11 NASA's Spitzer Finds Distant Galaxies Grazed on Gas Galaxies once thought of as voracious tigers are more like grazing cows, according to a new study using NASA's Spitzer... read more
feature11-05 06.15.11 A Green Ring Fit for a Superhero Has the comic book superhero Green Lantern lost his ring? In fact, this giant ring of glowing dust, imaged by NASA's Spitzer... read more	ssc2011-06 05.26.11 Spitzer Sees Crystal 'Rain' in Outer Clouds of Infant Star Tiny crystals of a green mineral called olivine are falling down like rain on a burgeoning star, according to observations... read more
partner074 05.25.11 The Spitzer Photo Atlas of Galactic "Train Wrecks" Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics read more	feature11-03 05.23.11 Planet? Check. A new planetary member of the Kepler-10 solar system was announced today. Using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope... read more
feature11-04 05.20.11 Spitzer Achievements Honored at Rotary Stellar Awards NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has been awarded the prestigious 2011 Stellar Award by the Rotary National Award for Space... read more	ssc2011-05 04.12.11 NASA Telescopes Help Discover Surprisingly Early Galaxy Astronomers have uncovered one of the earliest galaxies to appear in the distant universe, with stars that formed 13.5... read more
ssc2011-04 04.04.11 NASA's Spitzer Discovers Time-Delayed Jets Around Young Star Astronomers have discovered that two symmetrical jets shooting away from opposite sides of a blossoming star are experiencing... read more	ssc2011-03 02.10.11 New View of Family Life in the North America Nebula Stars at all stages of development, from dusty little tots to young adults, are on display in a new image from NASA's... read more
feature11-02 02.07.11 IPAC Celebrates 25 Years at Caltech Twenty five years ago moving vans were being loaded at the Union Bank, on South Lake Avenue in Pasadena, for the first... read more	ssc2011-02 01.12.11 NASA Telescopes Help Identify Most Distant Galaxy Cluster Astronomers have uncovered a burgeoning galactic metropolis, the most distant known in the early universe. This ancient... read more
ssc2011-01 01.12.11 Cosmology Standard Candle Not So Standard After All Astronomers have turned up the first direct proof that "standard candles" used to illuminate the size of the universe... read more	feature11-01 01.10.11 Stellar Education: Teachers Bring Classroom Space Science to Astronomy Conference Real space science and insights into teaching astronomy come straight from the classroom to a renowned international conference... read more
ssc2010-10 12.08.10 NASA's Spitzer Reveals First Carbon-Rich Planet Astronomers have discovered that a huge, searing-hot planet orbiting another star is loaded with an unusual amount of... read more	feature10-20 11.24.10 Astronomers Probe 'Sandbar' Between Islands of Galaxies Astronomers have caught sight of an unusual galaxy that has illuminated new details about a celestial "sandbar" connecting... read more
feature10-19 11.18.10 Spitzer Reveals a Buried Explosion Sparked by a Galactic Train Wreck Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found a stunning burst of star formation that beams out as much... read more	feature10-18 10.27.10 Spitzer Goes Buck Wild and Finds Buckyballs Floating Between the Stars Fresh after finding buckyballs around an aging star, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has now detected these intriguing... read more
ssc2010-09 10.27.10 Space Buckyballs Thrive, Finds NASA Spitzer Telescope Astronomers have discovered bucket loads of buckyballs in space. They used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to find the... read more	ssc2010-08 10.19.10 Astronomers Find Weird, Warm Spot on an Exoplanet Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveal a distant planet with a warm spot in the wrong place. read more
feature10-17 10.12.10 Giant Star Goes Supernova -- and is Smothered by its Own Dust A giant star in a faraway galaxy recently ended its life with a dust-shrouded whimper instead of the more typical bang. read more	feature10-16 09.23.10 Shining Starlight on the Dark Cocoons of Star Birth NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope data offers insight into cores of star-forming regions. read more
feature10-15 09.02.10 Spitzer Finds a Flavorful Mix of Asteroids New research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids somewhat near Earth, termed near-Earth objects... read more	ssc2010-07 08.23.10 Pulverized Planet Dust May Lie Around Double Stars Tight double-star systems might not be the best places for life to spring up, according to a new study using data from... read more

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	August 23 The Galactic Center Revisited (Gallery Explorer)
	March 18 Big Bang Musical
	February 16 Astronomy Anemone
	February 10 The North America Nebula (Gallery Explorer)
	December 23 The Art of Exoplanets

	January 10 A Dwarf Galaxy's Star Bar and Dusty Wing
	January 10 Dusty Space Cloud
	January 10 Stars Brewing in Cygnus X
	January 10 Goings On Around Star-forming Towns
	December 21 Distant Galaxy Bursts with Stars

	January 18 The Art Behind the Astro Pictures: Lecture Online
	December 19 Telescopes on Land and in Space Work Together for the Holidays!
	November 11 11-11-11: At 3000 and Counting!
	October 31 NITARP 2012 Class of Educators
	October 25 See Spitzer at the Smithsonian!