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CNET
February 2, 2018
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope combined their efforts to produce a new look at a pair of galaxies called Arp 142, but more adorably known as "the Penguin and the Egg." The penguin (formal name NGC 2336) likely started off as a spiral galaxy that was distorted by theÃÂ ...
Smithsonian
January 19, 2018
By combining data from Hubble and the Spitzer space telescope, Salmon and his colleagues attempted to “unsmear” the galaxy to learn more about it. A preliminary assessment suggests that it's pretty small, weighing in at around 3 billion solar masses—about 1/100th the size of our Milky Way galaxy,ÃÂ ...
Pasadena Now
January 17, 2018
Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. and science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech. Data are archived at the Infrared Science Archive housed at IPAC at Caltech. CaltechÃÂ ...
RT
January 16, 2018
Images of the 2-million year-old star plateau have been captured by both the Hubble and Spitzer space telescope. They have now been used by experts in NASA and the Caltech/Infrared Processing and Analysis Center to construct an incredible 3D tour of the region. Infrared light imagery used in theÃÂ ...
Clarksville Online
January 14, 2018
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech in Pasadena. Spacecraft operations are based at Lockheed MartinÃÂ ...
Outer Places
January 13, 2018
That's because of the Spitzer Space Telescope's contributions, which is an infrared telescope capable of picking up many more details than a visible light telescope like Hubble can see. This means NASA can more easily show off the dimmer newborn stars, intensely radiated and glowing clouds, and theÃÂ ...
Space.com
January 12, 2018
The movie occasionally switches between images taken by the two separate telescopes. The Hubble space telescope captures light in the visible range seen by humans, as well as longer and shorter wavelengths in the ultraviolet and near-infrared ranges. The Spitzer space telescope captures light in theÃÂ ...
Science Daily
January 11, 2018
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech in Pasadena. Spacecraft operations are based at Lockheed MartinÃÂ ...
Huffington Post UK
February 9, 2017
Photograph of the Milky Way Galaxy captured by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Dated 2007. The exhaust plume from space shuttle Atlantis is seen through the window of a Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA) as it launches from launch pad 39A at the KennedyÃÂ ...
The Inquisitr
February 6, 2017
At present, NASA has not only the Kepler Space Telescope but the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope as well searching for alien worlds.
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
February 3, 2017
Telescopes such as the legendary Hubble Space Telescope (capturing images in visible light), the Spitzer Space Telescope (with infrared vision), the Kepler telescope and the yet-to-be-launched James Webb Space Telescope with its 18-segment primaryÃÂ ...
Norwalk Plus Magazine
February 2, 2017
... together with representatives from high schools in Tennessee, Massachusetts and Virginia used mathematical tools combined with scientific knowledge to identify Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) from infrared data collected by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
New Tang Dynasty Television
February 1, 2017
Using infrared light, the Spitzer Space Telescope has been taking high resolution images of our galactic center since 2003.
The Winonan
February 1, 2017
This device, which is on board the Spitzer Space Telescope, a telescope that was launched into space in 2003, provides data that makes it possible to estimate the approximate age of the starburst within the galaxy.
Sputnik International
February 1, 2017
In recent research, an international group of physicists from the H0LiCOW collaboration used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope to estimate the universe's current expansion rate. This newly calculated number - about 71.9ÃÂ ...
spectroscopyNOW.com
January 31, 2017
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope first sighted the system as the Keplerean chaos kicked and jostled comet-like bodies, leading to a huge halo of dust, a circumstellar disc, around the system visible in the infrared.
Digit
January 31, 2017
Research is also carried out using space telescope facilities such as the Hubble Space Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope, and the Herschel Space Telescope. Soon, we might also see SETI taking advantage of the upcoming James Web SpaceÃÂ ...
ISRAEL21c
January 30, 2017
Hoffman and colleagues in the United States and France used powerful telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope, to construct a three-dimensional map of the galaxy flow field. Flows are direct responses to theÃÂ ...
Universe Today
January 27, 2017
Since they were first discovered in the late 1960s, pulsars have continued to fascinate astronomers. Even though thousands of these pulsing, spinning stars have been observed in the past five decades, there is much about them that continues to elude us.
The Daily Galaxy (blog)
January 26, 2017
This purple pulsar, named B0355+54, is a composite of X-ray data from Chandra and infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope showing the umbrella-like structure of the pulsar, the head of which is the neutron star. The tails streaming off of it ...
Space.com
January 26, 2017
Suyu, Courbin and their colleagues used NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope, as well as a number of ground-based instruments, to do this work.
Astronomy Magazine
January 12, 2017
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured images of Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann, whose frequent outbursts may come from cryovolcanism.
Space.com
January 12, 2017
Past decadal surveys have recommended investing in what eventually became the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-ray Telescope, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope (set to launch in 2018). The 2010 decadalÃÂ ...
Science News
January 9, 2017
Malkan and colleagues used the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope in Hawaii and the Spitzer Space Telescope to collect the light from over 5,000 galaxies.
Courthouse News Service
January 6, 2017
Visible light pictures show the nebula divided into three parts by dark, obscuring dust lanes, but this penetrating infrared image, courtesy of the Spitzer Space Telescope, reveals filaments of glowing dust clouds and newborn stars. As seen here, the ...
The Straits Times
January 6, 2017
This composite image contains X-ray data from Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Rosat telescope (purple), infrared data from Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope (orange) and optical data from the SuperCosmos Sky Survey (blue) made by the UnitedÃÂ ...
iTech Post
January 6, 2017
The telescope, designed to be a large space-based observatory optimized for infrared wavelengths, will be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. It is scheduled to be launched in October 2018. (Photo : AlexÃÂ ...
University Herald
December 30, 2016
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden Discusses New James Webb Space Telescope GREENBELT, MD - NOVEMBER 02: Engineers and technicians assemble the James Webb Space Telescope November 2, 2016 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center inÃÂ ...
Space Fellowship
December 26, 2016
The featured image includes not only visible light taken by the UKIRT Telescope in Hawaii (blue) as part of the SuperCosmos Sky Surveys, but infrared light from NASA's orbiting Spitzer Space Telescope (orange) and X-ray light from NASA's orbiting ...
The Daily Galaxy (blog)
December 25, 2016
In 2005, Kashlinsky led a team of astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to explore the background glow of infrared light in one part of the sky.
Astronomy Now Online
December 22, 2016
This composite image contains X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ROSAT telescope (purple), infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (orange), and optical data from the SuperCosmos Sky Survey (blue) made by theÃÂ ...
The Siasat Daily
December 20, 2016
... radio data from the NSF?s Karl Jansky Very Large Array, optical data from NASA?s Hubble Space Telescope and infrared data from NASA?
Space.com
December 20, 2016
This composite image contains X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the ROSAT telescope (purple), infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (orange), and optical data from the SuperCOSMOS Sky Survey (blue) made by theÃÂ ...
Phys.Org
December 19, 2016
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), as captured in phenomenal panorama from 5,000 meters at Chilean Altiplano -- the highlands of the Andes Mountains.
Inverse
December 19, 2016
NASA created a composite image that's about 70 light-years across using X-Ray data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope, data on visible light from the UK's Infrared Telescope, and infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, and each ofÃÂ ...
Christian Science Monitor
December 18, 2016
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CNN
December 17, 2016
... on their love of science fiction. When they received data from the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope or Kepler Spacecraft, one had to make only a passing mention of planets from "Star Wars," like Hoth, Tatooine or Mustafar, and the other understood ...
The Daily Galaxy (blog)
December 13, 2016
Observers on Earth would see an incredible show. observations by the Spitzer Space Telescope revealed that Andromeda contains one trillion stars, greatly exceeding the four billion stars in our own galaxy.
Phys.Org
December 13, 2016
An image of space taken by Spitzer Space Telescope. Credit: Wikimedia. Given Spitzer's age, and the fact the vastly more advanced James Webb Telescope - which will eventually replace both Hubble and Spitzer - is set to be launched in 2018, this wasÃÂ ...
Tucson Weekly
December 12, 2016
UA faculty also helped build cameras for the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The OSIRIS-REx mission, the most recent space launch the UA was a part of, captivated the imagination of Southern Arizona, as the school eagerlyÃÂ ...
Science Daily
November 15, 2016
JPL manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech in Pasadena, California.
Space.com
November 14, 2016
In this case, researchers looked at the system and background star from two different space telescopes: the Spitzer Space Telescope, which is following Earth in its own orbit around the sun - it's about 40 percent farther from Earth than Earth is from ...
SpaceFlight Insider
November 13, 2016
... dwarfs and exoplanets, noted JPL scientist Geoffrey Bryden. Shvartzvald and Bryden are co-authors of a study on their findings published in the Astrophysical Journal.
Clarksville Online
November 11, 2016
JPL manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech in Pasadena, California.
Astronomy Now Online
November 11, 2016
Two of NASA's space-based instruments, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Swift Gamma-Ray Burst satellite, teamed up with ground-based observatories to observe microlensing event OGLE-2015-BLG-1319 caused by a brown dwarf.
Deccan Herald
November 7, 2016
The important IR satellite missions so far are the Infrared Astronomical Satellite (IRAS), Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), Spitzer Space Telescope, Herschel Space Observatory, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) etc. Significant ...
Scientific American (blog)
October 31, 2016
The ominous green material sits by a bright stellar cluster to the right (Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech) Infrared image of The Elephant's Trunk Nebula from the Spitzer Space Telescope - young stars within as the nebula is destroyed by ultraviolet radiation ...
Space Daily
October 30, 2016
The new results also show that clouds are not evenly distributed on hot Jupiters, echoing previous findings from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope suggesting that different parts of hot Jupiters have vastly different temperatures. The new findings come as ...
Stuff.co.nz
October 30, 2016
An artist's composite shows the cosmic distance ladder used to measure the size and age of the Universe. Astronomers using Nasa's Spitzer Space Telescope have greatly improved the cosmic distance ladder. Spitzer was able to improve upon pastÃÂ ...
The Daily Galaxy (blog)
October 29, 2016
In 2005, Kashlinsky led a team of astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to explore the background glow of infrared light in one part of the sky.
