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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
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	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
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	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
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	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
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	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
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	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	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
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	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
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-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-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-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

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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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