Last of the Great Observatories
Years before Spitzer was launched into space, the entire mission was cancelled! Dr. George Rieke discusses the incredible story of what brought it back from the dead, and how that information is influencing new infrared telescopes being developed today.
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07.22.10 Unsettled Youth: A Chaotic Planetary SystemDuring the infancy of our solar system, when our planets had not yet settled down into their orbits, this was a dange... |
07.22.10 Unsettled Youth: A Chaotic Planetary SystemDuring the infancy of our solar system, when our planets had not yet settled down into their orbits, this was a dange... |
06.01.10 Swirling Clumps of Planetary MaterialSomething appears to be pushing around a large clump of material that is in orbit of this star, and it's moving fast ... |
02.05.10 Trigger Happy Star FormationFrom recent discoveries made by two of NASA's Great Observatories comes new insight into how stars are created. Large... |
09.04.09 Baby Stars Found Jumbled In Galactic CenterAt the center of our Milky Way galaxy is an area previously unseen by astronomers. Shrouded by clouds of swirling dus... |
04.07.09 Cool Stars Have Different Mix of Life-Forming ChemicalsIt'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... |
01.28.09 Exoplanet with Wild Temperature SwingsTalk about hot flashes! A planet that heats up to extreme temperatures in a matter of hours before quickly cooling ba... |
12.12.08 Dim DwarfsThe new record-holder for dimmest known star-like object in the universe goes to twin brown dwarfs, each of which shi... |
11.13.08 Twin Asteroid BeltsThe star Epsilon Eridani is even stranger than fiction. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has shown it has two asteroid ... |
09.18.08 Water Hit with Young Star's Best ShotWater is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer... |
08.25.08 Spitzer's Fifth AnniversaryNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope continues to surprise astronomers. On its fifth anniversary, we recap some of this Gre... |
07.15.08 Brightest Star in the Galaxy has New CompetitionA contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the... |
06.13.08 Missing Spiral ArmsAs a result of a new Spitzer Space Telescope study, two of our own Milky Way Galaxy's spiral arms have gone away. |
05.23.08 Holes on MarsSpitzer isn't the only infrared mission. Infrared images from another of NASA's robotic missions help us understand m... |
03.24.08 Diamondoids in SpaceDiamonds may be rare on Earth, but surprisingly common in space -- and new research shows that the infrared eyes of N... |
02.25.08 Common EarthsTerrestrial planets might form around many, if not most, of the nearby sun-like stars in our galaxy. These new result... |
02.04.08 Cosmic SuburbiaYoung city dwellers on Earth aren't the only ones rushing to suburbia to start families. New observations from NASA's... |
12.19.07 Uncommon MoonsNew observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that moons like Earth's -- that formed out of tremendous... |
10.22.07 Galactic Thief Caught Stealing GasA big galaxy, spotted stealing gas from a passing galaxy about half its size, was caught red-handed by the Spitzer Sp... |
10.09.07 Dust in the Wind of Black HolesThe dust that makes everything around us -- and even ourselves -- may have come from black holes. |
