ssc2020-05 01.24.20 Operate a NASA Great Observatory With New VR ExperienceA new virtual reality experience lets users get a taste of what it's like to explore the cosmos with the Spitzer Spac... read more |
ssc2020-03 01.22.20 NASA Celebrates the Legacy of the Spitzer Space TelescopeNASA is celebrating the legacy of one of its Great Observatories, the Spitzer Space Telescope, which has studied the ... read more |
ssc2020-02 01.15.20 NASA Pays Tribute, Says Goodbye to One of Agency’s Great ObservatoriesNASA will host a live program at 1 p.m. EST Wednesday, Jan. 22, to celebrate the far-reaching legacy of the agency’s ... read more |
ssc2020-01 01.07.20 NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone WorldNASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite has discovered its first Earth-size planet in its star's habitable zone,... read more |
ssc2019-18 12.19.19 Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long HistoryThis image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows the Perseus Molecular Cloud, a massive collection of gas and dus... read more |
ssc2019-17 10.30.19 Spitzer Telescope Spots a Ghoulish GourdLook closer to see why scientists studying this distant cloud of dust and gas think it resembles a cosmic jack-o'-lan... read more |
ssc2019-16 09.30.19 Spitzer Spots a Starry Region Bursting With BubblesThis infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a cloud of gas and dust full of bubbles, which are infl... read more |
ssc2019-15 08.27.19 Sixteen Images for Spitzer's Sweet 16NASA launched its Spitzer Space Telescope into orbit around the Sun on Aug. 25, 2003. Since then, the observatory has... read more |
ssc2019-14 08.19.19 NASA Gets a Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's SurfaceA new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a ... read more |
ssc2019-13 08.07.19 NASA's Spitzer Spies a Perfectly Sideways GalaxyIt might look like a lightsaber floating in space, but the red beam in the middle of this image is actually a galaxy ... read more |
ssc2019-12 07.02.19 Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, SpitzerTwo NASA space telescopes have teamed up to identify, for the first time, the detailed chemical "fingerprint" of a pl... read more |
ssc2019-11 06.26.19 A Whirlpool 'Warhol' from NASA's Spitzer TelescopeUnlike Andy Warhol's famous silkscreen grids of repeating images rendered in different colors, the varying hues of th... read more |
ssc2018-spitzerVR 08.23.18 Spitzer VR ShowcaseTake a guided journey through the amazing TRAPPIST-1 star system in VR, known to be the home of 7 Earth-size exoplane... read more |
ssc2019-10 06.13.19 How NASA's Spitzer Has Stayed Alive for So LongAfter nearly 16 years of exploring the cosmos in infrared light, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope will be switched off ... read more |
ssc2019-08 05.31.19 NASA's Spitzer Captures Stellar Family PortraitThe evolution of stellar families - born from the same clumps of gas and dust - is just some of what's on display in ... read more |
ssc2019-06 05.08.19 New Clues About How Ancient Galaxies Lit up the UniverseNASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed that some of the universe's earliest galaxies were brighter than expected... read more |
ssc2019-05 04.25.19 The Giant Galaxy Around the Giant Black HoleOn April 10, 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) unveiled the first-ever image of a black hole's event horizon, t... read more |
ssc2019-04 03.27.19 'Space Butterfly' Is Home to Hundreds of Baby StarsWhat looks like a red butterfly in space is in reality a nursery for hundreds of baby stars, revealed in this infrare... read more |
ssc2019-03 02.27.19 Why Do Some Galactic Unions Lead to Doom?Three images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show pairs of galaxies on the cusp of cosmic consolidations. Though ... read more |
ssc2019-02 01.07.19 NASA Science Featured at Major Astronomy ConferenceAstronomers, astrophysicists and other space scientists will gather to discuss their latest research at the 233rd mee... read more |
