Spitzer's Fifth Anniversary

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope continues to surprise astronomers. On its fifth anniversary, we recap some of this Great Observatory's biggest discoveries.
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![]() 03.02.06 Origins of OrganicsRobert Hurt talks to Yanling Wu about her studies of blue compact dwarf galaxies, and what they tell us about the ori... |
![]() 02.15.06 Finding Crystals in Colliding GalaxiesRobert Hurt interviews Dr. Henrik Spoon about a first in extragalactic astronomy: the detection of delicate crystals ... |
![]() 01.11.06 Survivors Around a Dead StarWhitney Clavin speaks with Dr. Marc Kuchner, who has recently discovered signs of surviving comets around a star that... |
![]() 12.14.05 Alien Asteroid BeltsRobert Hurt speaks with Dr. Dean Hines by phone about the discovery of an asteroid belt similar to our own around a v... |
![]() 12.08.05 High School Students Visit SpitzerA teacher and three high school students from the Phillips Exeter Academy visit the Spitzer Science Center, and discu... |
![]() 11.09.05 The Mountains of CreationGay Hill talks to Dr. Lori Allen about the aesthetics and science behind the "Mountains of Creation," a beautiful new... |
![]() 10.27.05 Tale of the Tadpole GalaxyDr. Tom Jarrett discusses new images of the Tadpole galaxy from NASA's SWIRE mission, and what they may tell us about... |
![]() 10.13.05 Amazing AndromedaObservations of our sister galaxy Andromeda reveal a new side to this Milky Way neighbor. Dr. Karl Gordon and Dr. Geo... |
![]() 10.06.05 Cotton Candy CometsDr. Michelle Thaller discusses new insights into the nature of comets gained from observations by Spitzer and other o... |
![]() 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... |
![]() 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... |
![]() 09.01.05 Spitzer Turns TwoNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope celebrates its second anniversary of uncovering hidden universes of warm stellar embry... |
![]() 08.16.05 Finding Hidden Black HolesDr. Mark Lacy discusses a population of giant black holes, or quasars, in distant galaxies that, until recent Spitzer... |
![]() 08.03.05 Organic Molecules in the Early UniverseDr. Lin Yan discusses her recent discovery of organic molecules called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (or PAHs) in ... |