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ssc2018-08 06.14.18 Astronomers See Distant Eruption as Black Hole Destroys Star For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the formation and expansion of a fast-moving jet of material eje... read more	ssc2017-04 05.03.17 5000 Days in the Life of an Astronomy Robot May 3rd, 2017 marks the 5,000th day of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope mission. This video gives us a detailed look at... read more
feature16-18 11.10.16 NASA Space Telescopes Pinpoint Elusive Brown Dwarf In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, NASA's Spitzer and Swift space telescopes joined forces to observe a microlensi... read more	feature16-17 09.28.16 The Frontier Fields: Where Primordial Galaxies Lurk In the ongoing hunt for the universe's earliest galaxies, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has wrapped up its observati... read more
feature16-15 09.08.16 'Enterprise' Nebulae Seen by Spitzer Just in time for the 50th anniversary of the TV series "Star Trek," which first aired September 8th,1966, a new infra... read more	feature16-14 08.29.16 NASA Team Probes Peculiar Age-Defying Star For years, astronomers have puzzled over a massive star lodged deep in the Milky Way that shows conflicting signs of ... read more
feature16-13 08.25.16 Spitzer Space Telescope Begins 'Beyond' Phase Celebrating the spacecraft's ability to push the boundaries of space science and technology, NASA's Spitzer Space Tel... read more	feature16-12 07.27.16 Loneliest Young Star Seen by Spitzer and WISE Alone on the cosmic road, far from any known celestial object, a young, independent star is going through a tremendou... read more
feature16-11 07.21.16 Seeing the Milky Way's Giant Black Hole with New Eyes The Spitzer Space Telescope is exploring Sagittarius A*, the black hole in the center of the Milky Way. This supermas... read more	feature16-10 06.14.16 Gluttonous Star May Hold Clues to Planet Formation Astronomers have gained a new perspective on the behavior of outbursting star FU Orionis, using data from an airborne... read more
feature16-09 06.09.16 Spitzer Operations to Continue into 2019 NASA has approved the continued operation of the Spitzer mission through the commissioning phase of the James Webb Sp... read more	feature16-08 05.24.16 NASA Telescopes Find Clues For How Giant Black Holes Formed So Quickly Using data from NASA's Great Observatories, astronomers have found the best evidence yet for cosmic seeds in the earl... read more
feature16-07 04.26.16 Light Echoes Give Clues to Protoplanetary Disk Imagine you want to measure the size of a room, but it's completely dark. If you shout, you can tell if the space you... read more	feature16-06 04.14.16 A Space Spider Watches Over Young Stars A nebula known as "the Spider" glows fluorescent green in an infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and t... read more
feature16-05 03.28.16 Investigating the Mystery of Migrating 'Hot Jupiters' How do some gas giant planets end up so feverishly close to their stars? NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope finds new clues. read more	feature16-04 03.03.16 Hubble Team Breaks Cosmic Distance Record By pushing NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to its limits, an international team of astronomers has shattered the cosmic... read more
feature16-03 01.07.16 NASA's Great Observatories Weigh Massive Young Galaxy Cluster Data from three of NASA's Great Observatories uncover the most massive galaxy cluster ever detected in the early univ... read more	feature16-02 01.06.16 NASA Telescopes Find 'Twins' of Superstar Eta Carinae A new study has found five objects with similar properties to the most luminous and massive stellar system within 10,... read more
feature16-01 01.05.16 Runaway Stars Leave Infrared Waves in Space Astronomers are finding dozens of the fastest stars in our galaxy with the help of images from NASA's Spitzer Space T... read more	feature15-16 12.15.15 Status Report for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Engineers and scientists have been busy recovering the Spitzer Space Telescope from standby mode since it experienced... read more
feature15-15 12.14.15 Missing Water Mystery Solved in Comprehensive Survey of Exoplanets A survey of 10 hot, Jupiter-sized exoplanets conducted with NASA’s Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes has led a team... read more	feature15-14 12.10.15 NASA Telescopes Detect Jupiter-Like Storm on Small Star Astronomers have discovered what appears to be a tiny star with a giant, cloudy storm, using data from NASA's Spitzer... read more
feature15-13 12.03.15 Status Report for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope On Nov. 26, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope entered into a standby mode while executing regular calibration observatio... read more	feature15-12 11.24.15 Strange Star Likely Swarmed by Comets A star called KIC 8462852 has been in the news recently for unexplained and bizarre behavior. New clues emerge in the... read more
feature15-11 11.03.15 Whopping Galaxy Cluster Spotted with Help of NASA Telescopes Astronomers have discovered a giant gathering of galaxies in a very remote part of the universe, thanks to NASA's Spi... read more	feature15-10 08.20.15 Colorful Calendar Celebrates 12th Anniversary of NASA's Spitzer Relive the highlights of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope mission with a new digital calendar. read more
feature15-09 07.09.15 NASA Missions Have Their Eyes Peeled on Pluto NASA's New Horizons will have the support of other spacecraft during its historic Pluto flyby, with observations from... read more	feature15-08 07.02.15 Stellar Sparklers That Last A new image containing data from NASA's Spitzer and Chandra space telescopes shows a cluster of young stars expected ... read more
partner092 07.01.15 Celebrating a Decade of Bringing Authentic Astronomy Research into Classrooms Nationwide with the NITARP Program A decade after graduating its first class, the NASA/IPAC Teacher Archive Research Program (NITARP)—a project that bri... read more	feature15-07 06.25.15 Can Planets Be Rejuvenated Around Dead Stars? An older planet may have reclaimed its youthful glow, according to new evidence from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. read more
feature15-06 06.11.15 Helium-Shrouded Planets May Be Common in Our Galaxy The wacky world of exoplanets continues to surprise astronomers. They wouldn't float like balloons or give you the ch... read more	feature15-05 04.14.15 NASA's Spitzer Spots Planet Deep Within Our Galaxy NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 ... read more
feature15-04 04.09.15 Our Sun Came Late to the Milky Way's Star-Birth Party Our Sun missed the stellar "baby boom" that erupted in our young Milky Way galaxy 10 billion years ago. During that t... read more	feature15-03 04.07.15 The Solar System and Beyond is Awash in Water As NASA missions explore our solar system and search for new worlds, they are finding water in surprising places. Wat... read more
feature15-02 03.23.15 NASA Satellites Catch a 'Growth Spurt' from a Newborn Protostar A sudden eruption around an exceptionally young star surprises astronomers. Using data from orbiting observatories, i... read more	feature15-01 01.27.15 Citizen Scientists Lead Astronomers to Mystery Objects in Space "Hmm, what's that?" Simply by asking the question, volunteers have led researchers to illuminate a little-known stage... read more
feature14-23 01.06.15 Discovering Our Universe from the Classroom: Teacher Research Program Brings NASA Research to Schools Across America How many high school teachers and kids can say that they have presented their astronomy reach alongside professional ... read more	feature14-23 12.19.14 Horsehead of a Different Color Sometimes a horse of a different color hardly seems to be a horse at all, as, for example, in this newly released ima... read more
feature14-22 12.05.14 Warm Gas Pours 'Cold Water' on Galaxy's Star-Making One galaxy devoured remnants of another galaxy, quenching the formation of new stars. read more	feature14-21 11.10.14 Follow the Dust to Find Planets Researchers studying what appears to be a beefed-up version of our solar system have discovered that it is encased in... read more
feature14-20 10.22.14 Galactic Wheel of Life Shines in Infrared It might look like a spoked wheel or even a "Chakram" weapon wielded by warriors like "Xena," from the fictional TV s... read more	feature14-19 10.15.14 Slow-Growing Galaxies Offer Window to Early Universe What makes one rose bush blossom with flowers, while another remains barren? Astronomers ask a similar question of ga... read more
feature14-18 09.09.14 Spitzer's SPLASH Project Dives Deep for Galaxies Astronomers "fishing" for galaxies turn up surprisingly massive catch. In one of the longest surveys the telescope wi... read more	feature14-17 08.07.14 Spitzer Telescope Honored by Aerospace Society NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has received the 2014 AIAA Space Science Award for its ongoing infrared studies of the... read more
feature14-16 07.23.14 The Most Precise Measurement of an Alien World's Size NASA's Kepler and Spitzer space telescopes have made the most precise measurement yet of the size of a planet beyond ... read more	feature14-15 07.02.14 Black Hole Fireworks in Nearby Galaxy Celebrants this Fourth of July will enjoy the dazzling lights and booming shock waves from the explosions of firework... read more
feature14-14 06.19.14 Spitzer Spies an Odd, Tiny Asteroid Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have measured the size of an asteroid candidate for NASA's Asteroid ... read more	feature14-13 06.12.14 Catching a 'Wave' of Galaxies Ending the Dark Ages Through a project dubbed SURFS UP, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope are catching sight of a ... read more
feature14-12 06.04.14 New Suspect Identified in Supernova Explosion There were no witnesses to a stellar blast that lit up our skies a millennium ago, but NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope... read more	feature14-11 05.28.14 The 'Serpent' Star-forming Cloud Hatches New Stars The dark patch of clouds in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is swaddled in so much dust, even infrared... read more
feature14-10 05.21.14 Pitch Black: Cosmic Clumps Cast the Darkest Shadows A colossal, deeply dark cloud is found cranking out massive stars in a new Spitzer study. read more	feature14-09 05.15.14 What Do You See in a Nebula? Sometimes looking at the night sky can say more about the observer than the universe - at least that's how it feels w... read more
feature14-08 04.23.14 Professional and Amateur Astronomers Join Forces Long before the term "citizen science" was coined, the field of astronomy has benefited from countless men and women ... read more	feature14-07 04.03.14 New Tool Finds Buried Treasure in Spitzer Archives Our Solar System is swarming with asteroids and comets. Although astronomers have identified many thousands of these ... read more
feature14-06 03.27.14 Spitzer Sees the Galactic Dawn with 'Frontier Fields' NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, in tandem with other major NASA observatories, has recently embarked on a major new m... read more	feature14-05 03.06.14 Mystery of Planet-forming Disks Explained by Magnetism Gigantic magnetic loops on planet-forming disks explain a mystery of too much infrared light. read more
feature14-04 02.26.14 Spitzer Stares into the Heart of New Supernova in M82 One of the closest supernovas to go off in the last few decades is putting on a good show for telescopes on the groun... read more	feature14-03 02.07.14 Looking Back to the Cradle of Our Universe NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes team up to find a small galaxy that appears to be lying at the observable ... read more
feature14-02 01.07.14 NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Team up to Probe Faraway Galaxies NASA's Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes are providing a new perspective on the remote universe, including new view... read more	feature14-01 01.07.14 Stormy Stars? NASA's Spitzer Probes Weather on Brown Dwarfs To the surprise of astronomers, most brown dwarfs may be roiled by massive storms. read more
feature13-12 12.18.13 The Rise and Fall of Galactic Cities How and when galactic metropolises cease their opulent ways is the subject of new research from NASA's Spitzer Space ... read more	feature13-11 12.16.13 New Animals on Display at Spitzer's Citizen Science Zoo Since 2010, about 50,000 volunteers have taken to their computers to help astronomers catalog star-blown bubbles capt... read more
feature13-10 11.21.13 Infant Galaxies Merge Near 'Cosmic Dawn' Astronomers using the combined power of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array telescope in Chile and NASA’... read more	feature13-09 11.11.13 Spitzer and ALMA Reveal a Star's Bubbly Birth Supersonic jets burst out of a young star's cocoon in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Atacama... read more
feature13-08 10.28.13 A Ghostly Trio from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Haunting images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show the disembodied remains of dying stars. read more	feature13-07 09.24.13 How Engineers Revamped Spitzer to Probe Exoplanets Even though NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was never designed to study exoplanets, it has become one of the world's p... read more
feature13-06 09.10.13 Comet Found Hiding in Plain Sight NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered secrets of the "asteroid" called Don Quixote, revealing its true comet n... read more	feature13-05 09.05.13 Coldest Brown Dwarfs Blur Star, Planet Lines Researchers are getting to know some of our sun's closest and smallest neighbors. read more
feature13-04 08.01.13 Monster Galaxies Lose Their Appetite With Age Our universe is filled with gobs of galaxies, bound together by gravity into larger families called clusters. Lying a... read more	feature13-03 07.31.13 Spitzer Discovers Young Stars with a 'Hula Hoop' A pair of stars peeks out from a tilted disk twirling around them, allowing astronomers to monitor their "blinking" p... read more
feature13-03 05.16.13 Galaxy's Ring of Fire This galaxy's ring of fire "burns, burns, burns" with young stars. read more	feature13-02 05.06.13 NASA's Spitzer Puts Planets in a Petri Dish Astronomers are using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to dissect the atmospheres of an exotic class of planets called ... read more
feature13-01 04.03.13 A Confetti-Like Collection of Stars Stars sparkle in this lively new view of the Small Magellanic Cloud from NASA's Great Observatories. read more	feature12-08 12.19.12 Armchair Science: Bag and Tag Glowing Galactic Clouds A new galactic game launches today that lets citizen scientists identify the glowing clouds where future stars will b... read more
feature12-07 12.18.12 Shot Away from its Companion, Giant Star Makes Waves A runaway star can be seen charging through the dust in an infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. read more	feature12-06 09.26.12 Spitzer, Hubble See Galaxy-Altering Quasars Ignite NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes have caught sight of luminous quasars igniting after galaxies collide. Qua... read more
feature12-05 09.24.12 Spitzer Welcomes Shuttle Endeavour to Los Angeles The Space Shuttle Endeavour, mounted atop its specially-adapted 747, made a grand tour of the Los Angles basin on Sep... read more	feature12-04 05.24.12 NASA Scientist Figures Way to Weigh Space Rock A scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has accurately determined the mass of a nearby a... read more
feature12-03 03.07.12 Citizen Scientists Reveal a Bubbly Milky Way Volunteers are helping astronomers find star-blown bubbles throughout our Milky Way galaxy. read more	feature12-02 01.25.12 Astronomical Success: Caltech's George Helou Honored by Home Country of Lebanon They say there is no place like home. For Caltech's George Helou, the essence of that phrase carries over to the reco... read more
feature12-01 01.11.12 Teacher Program Brings NASA Research to High Schools, Middle Schools, Museums Imagine you are a high school student walking into your science class in September and you learn that your teacher is... read more	feature11-13 11.23.11 Doubling Up on the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy Like the Milky Way, Messier 83 is classified as a barred spiral galaxy due to the bar-like pattern of stars that run ... read more
feature11-12 11.10.11 The Tarantula Glows with X-rays and Infrared Light The Tarantula nebula can be seen here in a web of dust and multimillion-degree gas. read more	feature11-11 10.19.11 Spitzer Finds the Coldest Companion to a Star Ever Seen Although we all want to think that the people we keep company with are "cool," when it comes to the cosmos, no one ha... read more
feature11-10 09.26.11 Spitzer Detects a Steaming Super-Earth Eclipsing Its Star NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has gathered surprising new details about a supersized and superheated version of Eart... read more	feature11-09 08.15.11 Honeycomb Carbon Crystals Possibly Detected in Space Flat flakes of carbon have been tentatively spotted in space. read more
feature11-08 08.10.11 A Cosmic Inkblot Test What do you see when you look at this strange mix of shapes from space? read more	feature11-07 08.09.11 Spitzer Status Update Spitzer scientists and engineers are beginning tests to study the feasibility of switching to the spacecraft's Inerti... read more
feature11-06 07.20.11 Spitzer's Spider Web of Stars Stars appear to be caught in a galactic web in this new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. read more	feature11-05 06.15.11 A Green Ring Fit for a Superhero Has the comic book superhero Green Lantern lost his ring? In fact, this giant ring of glowing dust, imaged by NASA's ... read more
feature11-03 05.23.11 Planet? Check. A new planetary member of the Kepler-10 solar system was announced today. Using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telesc... read more	feature11-04 05.20.11 Spitzer Achievements Honored at Rotary Stellar Awards NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has been awarded the prestigious 2011 Stellar Award by the Rotary National Award for S... read more
feature11-02 02.07.11 IPAC Celebrates 25 Years at Caltech Twenty five years ago moving vans were being loaded at the Union Bank, on South Lake Avenue in Pasadena, for the firs... read more	feature11-01 01.10.11 Stellar Education: Teachers Bring Classroom Space Science to Astronomy Conference Real space science and insights into teaching astronomy come straight from the classroom to a renowned international ... read more
feature10-20 11.24.10 Astronomers Probe 'Sandbar' Between Islands of Galaxies Astronomers have caught sight of an unusual galaxy that has illuminated new details about a celestial "sandbar" conne... read more	feature10-19 11.18.10 Spitzer Reveals a Buried Explosion Sparked by a Galactic Train Wreck Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found a stunning burst of star formation that beams out as much... read more
feature10-18 10.27.10 Spitzer Goes Buck Wild and Finds Buckyballs Floating Between the Stars Fresh after finding buckyballs around an aging star, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has now detected these intriguing... read more	feature10-17 10.12.10 Giant Star Goes Supernova -- and is Smothered by its Own Dust A giant star in a faraway galaxy recently ended its life with a dust-shrouded whimper instead of the more typical bang. read more
feature10-16 09.23.10 Shining Starlight on the Dark Cocoons of Star Birth NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope data offers insight into cores of star-forming regions. read more	feature10-15 09.02.10 Spitzer Finds a Flavorful Mix of Asteroids New research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids somewhat near Earth, termed near-Earth object... read more

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	April 29 Simulation of Black Hole Disk Flares in Galaxy OJ 287
	April 29 Animation of Orbiting Black Holes in Galaxy OJ 287
	January 28 Spitzer Space Telescope Fly-Around
	January 28 Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared Fly-Around

	January 28 TRAPPIST-1 and Solar System Planet Stats
	January 28 Comparison of TRAPPIST-1 to the Solar System
	January 28 Measuring the Masses and Diameters of the TRAPPIST-1 Planets
	January 28 Possible Interiors of the TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanets
	October 28 Something Out There Is Watching You