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irastro028 12.16.15 Stampy! The Science-Loving Postage Stamp! Stampy helps a student learn about the engineering behind NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Featuring Richard Horvitz, ... watch now	irastro027 02.12.14 Fusion vs. Fission When a science-mad A.I. system is installed at NASA, two hapless computer technicians learn the process behind nuclea... watch now
irastro026 07.16.13 Ask an Astronomy Brain Parasite Deep inside an astronomer's head, a parasite (voiced by Alan Tudyk) taps into his brain to learn about...science! Spe... watch now	irastro025 02.26.13 Robot Astronomy Talk Show In Progress: The Mass of Asteroids Cameron Diaz teaches Robot IR-2 (Ed Wasser) how astronomers can measure the mass of asteroids from tremendous distances. watch now
irastro024 03.18.11 Big Bang Musical Did you know 13.7 billion year old radiation from the Big Bang can be seen on any analogue TV set? In this mini-music... watch now	irastro023 02.16.11 Astronomy Anemone Veronica Belmont co-hosts a space-themed talk show with Astronomy Anemone, a carnivorous man-eating sea polyp. WARNIN... watch now
irastro022 11.28.10 Robot Astronomy Talk Show: Destroyer of Worlds Robot IR-2 (Ed Wasser) meets The Physician (Wil Wheaton), an intergalactic buttinsky in a small blue box spaceship. T... watch now	irastro021 08.10.10 Behind the Scenes: Dead Stars Actor Sean Astin is hired by a bullying educational film Director and her Flunky sidekick to explain about the life a... watch now
SpitzerAudio-053 07.22.10 Unsettled Youth: A Chaotic Planetary System During the infancy of our solar system, when our planets had not yet settled down into their orbits, this was a dange... listen now	SpitzerAudio-052 06.01.10 Swirling Clumps of Planetary Material Something appears to be pushing around a large clump of material that is in orbit of this star, and it's moving fast ... listen now
irastro020 05.25.10 Spaceship Spitzer: Bots of Both Worlds Amy Okuda flies to Saturn to observe a new giant ring around the planet: the largest ring ever discovered in our Sola... watch now	irastroSD019 03.09.10 Spitzer Space Telescope: The Musical A singing NASA supervisor uses song to explain about NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and how infrared astronomy diffe... watch now
SpitzerAudio-051 02.05.10 Trigger Happy Star Formation From recent discoveries made by two of NASA's Great Observatories comes new insight into how stars are created. Large... listen now	irastroSD018 10.26.09 Behind the Scenes: When Galaxies Collide Felicia Day explains some of the science behind galactic "collisions," including the upcoming collision between the g... watch now
SpitzerAudio-050 09.04.09 Baby Stars Found Jumbled In Galactic Center At the center of our Milky Way galaxy is an area previously unseen by astronomers. Shrouded by clouds of swirling dus... listen now	irastroSD017 08.24.09 Robot Astronomy Talk Show: Back in Time Linda Hamilton attempts to foil the robots' plans of Universal conquest; meanwhile, Dean Stockwell explains the conce... watch now
SpitzerAudio-049 04.07.09 Cool Stars Have Different Mix of Life-Forming Chemicals It's life, Jim, but not as we know it! Well, at least the building blocks of life. A new study from NASA's Spitzer S... listen now	irastroSD014 03.11.09 Robot Astronomy Talk Show: Twin Brown Dwarfs While trapped in an interdimensional portal between two brown dwarfs, IR-2 and the robots encounter their evil twins ... watch now
SpitzerAudio-048 01.28.09 Exoplanet with Wild Temperature Swings Talk about hot flashes! A planet that heats up to extreme temperatures in a matter of hours before quickly cooling ba... listen now	irastroSD013 01.23.09 M51 & Gizmo: Half-Baked Plan Hoping for his birthday to come around sooner, innocent alien M51 moves the Earth into a closer, faster orbit around ... watch now
SpitzerAudio-047 12.12.08 Dim Dwarfs The new record-holder for dimmest known star-like object in the universe goes to twin brown dwarfs, each of which shi... listen now	irastroSD012 11.25.08 Spaceship Spitzer: The Slowlian Web During a tense face-off with a sinister (but extremely slow-moving) alien race, Dr. Michelle shows IR-1 how scientist... watch now
SpitzerAudio-046 11.13.08 Twin Asteroid Belts The star Epsilon Eridani is even stranger than fiction. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has shown it has two asteroid ... listen now	irastroSD011 10.22.08 Robot Astronomy Talk Show: Sculpting With Stars IR-2 opens diplomatic relations with the Earth, as a first step toward ruling over all humans on the planet. watch now
SpitzerAudio-045 09.18.08 Water Hit with Young Star's Best Shot Water is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer... listen now	irastroSD010 08.25.08 Psych Out Does the Helix Nebula look like a human eye? Why do we think we see well-known objects in nebulous images from space?... watch now
SpitzerAudio-044 08.25.08 Spitzer's Fifth Anniversary NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope continues to surprise astronomers. On its fifth anniversary, we recap some of this Gre... listen now	irastroSD009 07.21.08 Robot Astronomy Talk Show: The Building Blocks of Life IR-2 and his crew learn about PAHs, which may be the building blocks of all life in the Universe, and decide to put t... watch now
SpitzerAudio-043 07.15.08 Brightest Star in the Galaxy has New Competition A contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the... listen now	irastroSD008 07.02.08 Robot Astronomy Talk Show: Omega Centauri While the robots are away, a sad and lonely man calls in with a beautiful image of the Omega Centauri globular cluster. watch now
SpitzerAudio-042 06.13.08 Missing Spiral Arms As a result of a new Spitzer Space Telescope study, two of our own Milky Way Galaxy's spiral arms have gone away. listen now	SpitzerAudio-041 05.23.08 Holes on Mars Spitzer isn't the only infrared mission. Infrared images from another of NASA's robotic missions help us understand m... listen now
irastroSD007 05.16.08 Robot Astronomy Talk Show: Baby Stars Where do stars come from? IR-2 analyzes recent Spitzer imagery to find out, while an imposing Ratings-bot oversees th... watch now	irastroSD006 04.21.08 Dub'ya: Mountie Martin and the Space Diamonds Are tiny diamonds really common in the Universe? Join the intrepid Mountie Martin as he endeavors to find out, while ... watch now
SpitzerAudio-040 03.24.08 Diamondoids in Space Diamonds may be rare on Earth, but surprisingly common in space -- and new research shows that the infrared eyes of N... listen now	irastroSD005 03.13.08 Robot Astronomy Talk Show: Water in the Universe Astronomers have discovered huge amounts of water around baby stars; IR-2 and his crew plan to make use of it. watch now
irastroSD004 03.04.08 Robot Astronomy Talk Show: Asteroids Will an asteroid strike the Earth and wipe out all life as we know it? IR-2 and his robotic crew make random phone ca... watch now	SpitzerAudio-039 02.25.08 Common Earths Terrestrial planets might form around many, if not most, of the nearby sun-like stars in our galaxy. These new result... listen now
irastroSD003 02.08.08 Skinfrared #2: Water and Ice Viewing liquids in extreme temperatures in both visible and infrared light, this episode of the Skinfrared series giv... watch now	SpitzerAudio-038 02.04.08 Cosmic Suburbia Young city dwellers on Earth aren't the only ones rushing to suburbia to start families. New observations from NASA's... listen now
irastroSD002 01.17.08 Spaceship Spitzer: Enemy Mine While in battle around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy, Dr. Michelle teaches IR-1 the science... watch now	irastroSD001 01.15.08 Skinfrared #1 What is infrared light? The Skinfrared series contrasts the world around us in both visible and infrared light, givin... watch now
SpitzerAudio-037 12.19.07 Uncommon Moons New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that moons like Earth's -- that formed out of tremendous... listen now	SpitzerAudio-036 10.22.07 Galactic Thief Caught Stealing Gas A big galaxy, spotted stealing gas from a passing galaxy about half its size, was caught red-handed by the Spitzer Sp... listen now
SpitzerAudio-035 10.09.07 Dust in the Wind of Black Holes The dust that makes everything around us -- and even ourselves -- may have come from black holes. listen now	SpitzerAudio-034 10.03.07 Building an Earth? An infant Earth may be forming in a star system over 400 light-years away, according to new results from the Spitzer ... listen now
SpitzerAudio-033 09.12.07 Neon Signs in Space A recent detection of neon gas in planet-forming disks may help us better understand how planets form and whether or ... listen now	SpitzerAudio-032 08.16.07 Putting the Brakes on Star Formation Spitzer learns why one class of galaxy seems to have trouble forming new stars. listen now
SpitzerAudio-031 08.10.07 Planets with Four Suns? New results from the Spitzer Space Telescope hint that other solar systems may be even more exotic than we've ever im... listen now	SpitzerAudio-030 05.14.07 A Tale of Two Worlds -- One Hot, One Windy Astronomers have studied two very intriguing planets beyond our solar system -- one super hot, one super windy. This ... listen now
SpitzerAudio-029 03.29.07 Double Sunsets in Distant Skies Once thought to be the stuff of science fiction, double sunsets may be much more common in the universe than previous... listen now	SpitzerAudio-028 02.21.07 Hunting for Molecules on Faraway Planets A first from the Spitzer Space Telescope. A new finding is a stepping stone to eventually studying signs of life on w... listen now
SpitzerAudio-027 02.21.07 Atmospheres on Alien Worlds Using the Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have for the first time discovered what the atmosphere is like on plan... listen now	SpitzerAudio-026 01.09.07 Pillars of Destruction Hubble's "Pillars of Creation" within the Eagle Nebula is one of the most famous astronomical images of all time. But... listen now
SpitzerAudio-025 12.18.06 Spitzer Sees the Light In the beginning there was darkness...but now, Spitzer Scientists say they are seeing the universe's first light. listen now	SpitzerAudio-024 12.05.06 Wounded Comet Spills Secrets About Distant Solar Systems Could Comet Tempel 1 provide the key to understanding solar systems beyond our own? Dr. Carey Lisse talks with Linda ... listen now
SpitzerAudio-023 09.27.06 A Galactic Soap Opera Our story begins in the deep, dark universe, where galaxies, like people, lead fascinating lives, filled with drama. ... listen now	SpitzerAudio-022 09.08.06 Cosmic Disk Brakes for Spinning Stars Can planet-forming disks put the brakes on spinning stars? Dr. Luisa Rebull discusses Spitzer results that may solve ... listen now
SpitzerAudio-021 08.14.06 Piercing the Sword of Orion Astronomers have long scrutinized the vast and layered clouds of the Orion nebula, an industrious star-making factory... listen now	SpitzerAudio-020 06.23.06 Last of the Great Observatories Years before Spitzer was launched into space, the entire mission was cancelled! Dr. George Rieke discusses the incred... listen now
SpitzerAudio-019 06.05.06 Unmarked Grave of a Dead Star Spitzer has found a supernova remnant that no other telescope has seen. Dr. Patrick Morris discusses his team's disco... listen now	SpitzerAudio-018 05.11.06 Searching for Solar Systems Like Ours Are solar systems like our own common in the universe, or is ours an oddball? Dr. Lynne Hillenbrand discusses her wor... listen now
SpitzerAudio-016 04.05.06 Phoenix Rising from a Supernova's Ashes A supernova may be the ultimate end of a star's life, but this may not be the story's end. Recent Spitzer results hin... listen now	SpitzerAudio-017 04.05.06 Spitzer Finds Hints of Planet Birth Around Dead Star NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered new evidence that planets might rise up out of a dead star's ashes. (JP... listen now
SpitzerAudio-015 03.16.06 Seeing Smoke from a Galactic Fire Michelle Thaller speaks with Dr. George Helou about a striking new image of Galaxy M82, the discovery of mysterious o... listen now	SpitzerAudio-014 03.02.06 Origins of Organics Robert Hurt talks to Yanling Wu about her studies of blue compact dwarf galaxies, and what they tell us about the ori... listen now
SpitzerAudio-013 02.15.06 Finding Crystals in Colliding Galaxies Robert Hurt interviews Dr. Henrik Spoon about a first in extragalactic astronomy: the detection of delicate crystals ... listen now	SpitzerAudio-012 01.11.06 Survivors Around a Dead Star Whitney Clavin speaks with Dr. Marc Kuchner, who has recently discovered signs of surviving comets around a star that... listen now
SpitzerAudio-011 12.14.05 Alien Asteroid Belts Robert Hurt speaks with Dr. Dean Hines by phone about the discovery of an asteroid belt similar to our own around a v... listen now	SpitzerAudio-010 12.08.05 High School Students Visit Spitzer A teacher and three high school students from the Phillips Exeter Academy visit the Spitzer Science Center, and discu... listen now
SpitzerAudio-009 11.09.05 The Mountains of Creation Gay Hill talks to Dr. Lori Allen about the aesthetics and science behind the "Mountains of Creation," a beautiful new... listen now	SpitzerAudio-008 10.27.05 Tale of the Tadpole Galaxy Dr. Tom Jarrett discusses new images of the Tadpole galaxy from NASA's SWIRE mission, and what they may tell us about... listen now
SpitzerAudio-007 10.13.05 Amazing Andromeda Observations of our sister galaxy Andromeda reveal a new side to this Milky Way neighbor. Dr. Karl Gordon and Dr. Geo... listen now	SpitzerAudio-006 10.06.05 Cotton Candy Comets Dr. Michelle Thaller discusses new insights into the nature of comets gained from observations by Spitzer and other o... listen now
SpitzerAudio-005 09.29.05 What's a Big Galaxy Doing in the Baby Universe? Astronomers unexpectedly discover that some very massive mature galaxies were already in place only one billion years... listen now	SpitzerAudio-004 09.15.05 Do Planets Sprout Like Wildflowers? New Spitzer evidence indicates that some gas giants may have grown in less than one million years, faster than previo... listen now
SpitzerAudio-003 09.01.05 Spitzer Turns Two NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope celebrates its second anniversary of uncovering hidden universes of warm stellar embry... listen now	SpitzerAudio-002 08.16.05 Finding Hidden Black Holes Dr. Mark Lacy discusses a population of giant black holes, or quasars, in distant galaxies that, until recent Spitzer... listen now
SpitzerAudio-001 08.03.05 Organic Molecules in the Early Universe Dr. Lin Yan discusses her recent discovery of organic molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (or PAHs) in ... listen now

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	October 30 Spitzer Telescope Spots a Ghoulish Gourd
	September 30 Spitzer Spots a Starry Region Bursting With Bubbles
	August 27 Sixteen Images for Spitzer's Sweet 16
	August 19 NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface
	August 7 NASA's Spitzer Spies a Perfectly Sideways Galaxy

	October 30 The Jack-o-Lantern Nebula
	October 30 The Jack-o-Lantern Nebula
	September 30 Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere! (Annotated)
	September 30 Bow Shocks Between the Bubbles
	September 30 Bubbles, Bubbles Everywhere!

	December 2 Three Months of Checkout, A Lifetime of Memories
	October 23 Space Was Her Second Act: As Spitzer Takes Its Final Bow, Astronomer and Actress Aomawa Shields Thanks Spitzer For Her Big Break.
	September 18 Don’t Sneeze On Spitzer! Matthew Ashby remembers his first time meeting the telescope
	September 4 NASA’s Spitzer’s Space Telescope: Shaping Scientific Careers of Researchers and Future Space Telescopes
	August 3 The Adventure of a Lifetime

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