Spitzer Space Telescope

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  NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Captures Extraordinary Image Of Milky Way's Heart

  The centre of our galaxy can be seen in the image on the middle-bottom right. With the darkness of space as its backdrop, interstellar dust and radiation come together to form a magnificent tapestry.

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  Astronomers Discover Two Water Worlds 218 Light Years Away

  Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescope data on a pair of exoplanets, Kepler-138 c and Kepler-138 d suggests that they may be water worlds.

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  NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Captures Interstellar Image With Unprecedented Clarity

  NASA's James Webb space telescope has delivered an image of a portion of the sky that was previously captured by the now retired Spitzer space telescope. The latest image is a lot sharper than the archival shot.

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  'Space Butterfly': NASA Shares Image of 'Baby Stars' Cluster

  NASA has shared an image of a cluster of baby stars, captured by its Spitzer Space Telescope. Calling the red clouds of gas a beautiful space butterfly, NASA says the image explains how stars are formed in space.

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  NASA Shows Giant Debris Cloud Formed by Collision of Celestial Bodies

  Most rocky planets and satellites, including our Earth and the Moon, are formed or shaped by massive collisions among celestial bodies early in the solar system. When these objects smash together, they could either accumulate more material and increase their size or they can break apart into multiple smaller bodies.

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  NASA’s Spitzer Telescope Captures Image Of The Cat's Paw Nebula

  American space agency NASA has shared an image of Cat’s Paw Nebula, which is named so for the "large, round features that resemble a feline footprint".

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  NASA Shares Image of Helix Nebula, a Giant Eye in Sky

  NASA has shared a stunning image of a giant eye-shaped nebula that is among the brightest and closest to Earth. The image, captured by the agency's Spitzer Space Telescope, showed a deep vacuum surrounded by a sparkling cloud of dust and gas.

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  NASA Explains Why 'Stars Are Just Like Us' With Stunning Pictures of Four Nebulae

  NASA often shares images of the Earth and space that leaves social media users in awe. This time around, the space agency shared not one but four images of nebulae — star-forming gaseous clouds — on its official Instagram page.

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  NASA Shares Captivating Picture of a Supernova Remnant, Calls It 'A Kaleidoscope of Colour'

  NASA has shared a beautiful image of Cas A, the remnant of a massive star that exploded about 300 years ago, on its Instagram. The picture justifies the title picked by the space agency, which called it 'A Kaleidoscope of Colour'.

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  NASA Bids Farewell to Spitzer Telescope After 16 Years of Service

  NASA has said goodbye to the Spitzer space telescope after 16 years of service using infrared light to unveil otherwise invisible features of the universe, including seven planets the size of Earth around the star Trappist-1.

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  Space Telescope Offers Rare Glimpse Of Earth-Sized Rocky Exoplanet

  Direct observations from a NASA space telescope have for the first time revealed the atmospheric void of a rocky, Earth-sized world beyond our own solar system orbiting the most common type of star in the galaxy, according to a study released on Monday.

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  NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to Retire in 2020

  NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope will be switched off permanently on January 30, 2020, after nearly 16 years of exploring the cosmos in infrared light.

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  As NASA's Telescopes Falter, Astronomers Fear Losing Their Eyes In Space

  America's Great Observatories - the Hubble, Chandra, Compton and Spitzer space telescopes - have peered into the unknown and made breakthrough discoveries about newborn stars, dark matter and the age of the universe itself.

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  NASA's Spritzer Telescope Completes 15 Years in Space

  Launched into solar orbit on August 25, 2003, Spitzer was initially scheduled for a minimum 2.5-year primary mission but has lasted far beyond its expected lifetime.

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  NASA Telescopes Detect Signs of Water on Distant 'Warm Neptune'

  The study, combining observations from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, shows that the distant planet HAT-P-26b has a primitive atmosphere composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium.