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Night and Day on an Alien World
It's as clear as day and night... but on an exotic alien world! Astronomers have for the first time measured the temperatures varying across the surface of a planet beyond our solar system.
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08.07.12 Possible Nearby Exoplanet Smaller than Earth (Update)Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is an alien world just two-thirds th... |
05.21.12 Cygnus X Marks the Spot (Gallery Explorer)Over the last half century this Cygnus X has been yielding its secrets to the scrutiny of infrared observations. NASA... |
08.23.11 The Galactic Center Revisited (Gallery Explorer)Hiding behind the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius is the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, over 25,000 ligh... |
02.10.11 The North America Nebula (Gallery Explorer)Seen here in visible light, the North America Nebula strangely resembles its namesake continent. Expanding our view t... |
12.23.10 The Art of ExoplanetsWhile astronomers have identified over 500 planets around other stars, they’re all too small and distant to fill even... |
10.07.10 The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS)Today's telescopes study the sky across the electromagnetic spectrum. Each part of the spectrum tells us different th... |
07.09.10 The Dragon and the Swan (Gallery Explorer)Hidden behind a dark veil of dust in the constellation Sagittarius, a lurking dragon has been revealed by the infrare... |
06.01.10 When Worlds Collide (Showcase)When worlds collide, the result is spectacular, and astronomers think they’ve detected the aftermath of such an event... |
03.19.10 The Wise Sky (Gallery Explorer)In December of 2009, NASA launched its latest infrared telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. This satel... |
02.05.10 The Many Views of the Milky Way (Gallery Explorer)In May of 2009, the European Space Agency successfully launched the Herschel Space Observatory, a new eye for the inf... |
11.25.09 The One Ring of Saturn (Showcase)Astronomers have found One Ring to rule them all, not in the land of Mordor, but around Saturn, the Lord of the Rings... |
09.03.09 Cooking Up Cometary Crystals (Showcase)The fading light of a flaring young star has shed light on a puzzle involving crystals and comets. |
06.18.09 Orion Nebula (Gallery Explorer)Explore the dusty secrets of the Orion Nebula through Spitzer's infrared vision. |
04.08.09 A Galaxy of a Different Color (Showcase)To commemorate this International Year of Astronomy, three of NASA's flagship observatories have put a new spin on ho... |
02.02.09 The Omega Nebula (Gallery Explorer)The Omega Nebula, or M17, is a star-forming region in the constellation of Sagittarius and is about 6,000 light years... |
12.26.08 The W5 Stellar Blast Furnace (Showcase)It's a chaotic region, sculpted by the glare of one generation of massive stars that's giving rise to the next. |
10.30.08 The Milky Way Big Picture (Showcase)Two and a half billion infrared pixels are exposing our own Galaxy in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telesc... |
08.12.08 Snowflake Cluster (Gallery Explorer)A group of baby stars form a "stellar snowflake" in Spitzer's observations of a dusty region near the Cone Nebula. |
06.13.08 Echoes of a Supernova (Showcase)A supernova flash echoing through surrounding dust clouds has given astronomers a virtual time machine for studying t... |
04.15.08 Protostellar Jets (Gallery Explorer)Giant jets from baby stars blow colorful bubbles in interstellar space. Spitzer's infrared view reveals these structu... |
