Spitzer Space Telescope

Spitzer Space Telescope
Related Category: Astronomy: General
see infrared astronomy; observatory, orbiting.
More on Spitzer Space Telescope ...

Spitzer Space Telescope
Spitzer Telescope has provided a dramatic new view of the Milky Way galaxy.

When the Spitzer Space Telescope was launched in August of 2003, astronomers around the world were looking forward to all the new discoveries they knew would be coming down the pike; spectacular images of star-forming clouds, ...

Spitzer Space Telescope NASA's Great Observatory for infrared astronomy was launched in August 2003. Formerly named SIRTF (Space Infrared Telescope Facility), it was renamed in honor of Lyman Spitzer, Jr.

Spitzer Space Telescope
The sad thing is, if you get her you'll be sick of her in a year
Scintillate ...

Spitzer Space Telescope
The Spitzer Space Telescope is an infrared space observatory. It is the fourth and final of NASA's Great Observatories program.The planned nominal mission period was to be 2.

The Spitzer Space Telescope was launched at ambient temperature and cooled to just below 40 degrees Kelvin (-233 degrees Celsius or -388 degrees Fahrenheit) a few weeks after launch.

The Spitzer Space Telescope has produced this wonderfully colourful picture of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) to explore how one of our nearest galactic neighbours is forming stars.

The Spitzer Space Telescope is the fourth observatory, originally called the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, SIRTF, launched on August 24, 2003.

The Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), was launched to Earth orbit in 2003. It already has become an important tool in measuring Kuiper Belt objects.
THE SPITZER INFRARED TELESCOPE ...

The Spitzer Space Telescope image was obtained with an infrared array camera that is sensitive to infrared light at wavelengths that are about ten times longer than visible light. In this four-color composite, emission at 3.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has for the first time captured the light from two known planets orbiting stars other than our Sun.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is used by the world's top scientists to explore space. But you don't have to be a professional to access data from it.

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered new evidence that planets might rise up out of a dead star's ashes.

9 Jun 2005 - The Spitzer Space Telescope observed very rapidly moving filaments outside the Cas A supernova remnant (Krause et al., 2005, Science, 308, 1604).

Today (2004), the Spitzer Space Telescope is the best infrared telescope, allowing astronomers to follow up many detections first made by IRAS.
See also: telescope, space telescope.

On January 8, 2007, astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope announced their collection of evidence indicating that gas-giant planets either form within the first 10 million years of a Sol-type star's life, or not at all.

Cosmic Reference Guides - Detector Arrays discusses the infrared CCDs and photometers used on the Spitzer Space telescope.

Running Rings Around the Galaxy Spitzer Space Telescope News
The Milky Way Galaxy, SEDS Messier pages
MultiWavelength Milky Way, NASA site with images and VRML models ...

In 2005, observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope backed up previously collected evidence that suggested the Milky Way is a barred spiral galaxy.

Another ring around Saturn has recently been discovered (6th October 2009) using the Spitzer Space Telescope, which revealed an infrared glow thought to come from sun-warmed dust in a tenuous ring.

The Spitzer Space Telescope observes in the infrared and has opened up a new universe to us.

When was the Spitzer Space Telescope launched?
When did Sir William Herschel discover infrared radiation?
Wmat makes up the atmosphere on Mars?
Who was Cleomedes?
What made Cleomedes famous?
When was William Parsons Rosse, 3d earl of born?

Sedna (2003 VB12), by Dr. Mike Brown, one of Sedna's discoverers.
Most Distant Object, by the Spitzer Space Telescope team.
press release from NASA
Sedna's Missing Moon
HST images of Sedna
Sedna Untouched for Millions of Years ...

New infrared observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, reveal how the first supernova ever recorded occurred and how its shattered remains ultimately spread out to great distances.

It contains a reddish emission nebula, a blue reflection nebula, a dark nebula, and an open cluster of stars. The nebula's name means "divided into three lobes." NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope discovered 30 embryonic stars and 120 newborn stars in ...

Here is an image from the VLT (visible light) and the Spitzer space telescope showing a region of star formation. The cloud's dark dusty appearance hides all of the star formation that is going on, which can be seen with the Spitzer's infrared eye.

See also: Telescope, Infrared, Earth, Light, Sun