31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... the universe in infrared light, revealing new wonders in our solar system, our galaxy and beyond, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope's mission has come to an end. Mission engineers confirmed at about 2:30 pm PDT (5:30 pm EDT) Thursday the spacecraft was...
May 2020
Space astronomy at the limits of technology
... temperature of the optical surfaces, so you have to cool them as much as possible. An artist’s concept depicting the Spitzer Space Telescope in space much as it would appear at the end of its mission on 30 January 2020, with a backdrop depicting the...
03 July 2019
New study reveals detailed exoplanet atmosphere
... illustration shows the disk as the system may have looked long ago. Observation by NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes have chemically analyzed the composition of GJ 3470 b's very clear and deep atmosphere, yielding clues to the planet...
26 May 2016
Are primordial black holes the source of dark matter?
...team of astronomers, led by Alexander Kashlinsky, used NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to explore the background glow of infrared light in the ...easily produces the irregularity of the CIB detected in Spitzer data. "Depending on the mechanism at work,...
12 May 2017
Warm Neptune with primitive atmosphere discovered
...the project. Combining observations from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, the team used data from transits – occasions ...,” said Hannah Wakeford, postdoctoral researcher at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and lead author of this study. To...
22 February 2017
NASA announces the discovery of first-ever exoplanet system with seven Earth-size planets
... Science Center at Caltech/IPAC in Pasadena, California. "Spitzer will follow up in the fall to further refine our understanding of these planets so that the James Webb Space Telescope can follow up. More observations of the system are sure to reveal...
