12 May 2017
Warm Neptune with primitive atmosphere discovered
... the University of Exeter and one of the researchers on the project. Combining observations from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, the team used data from transits – occasions when the planet passed in front of its...
March 2017
Twinkle - a mission to unravel the story of planets in our galaxy
...at the end of its life and, with the degraded performance of Spitzer, no data is currently available in the mid-infrared. The James Webb...per cent for exoplanet science over the past five years and Spitzer, by the end of its cold operations phase, had ...
January 2022
Revealing the magnetic universe
... Experiment (APEX), Chandra X-Ray observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope. The observed differences between both tracers...composite image from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The galactic superwind from the central...
May 2022
Essential guide to the James Webb Space Telescope
...wavelengths, like those seen by NASA’s previous infrared telescope Spitzer, allow us to see the light emitted by cool ...completely different part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Compared to Spitzer, JWST will see around 15 times more detail. Although...
30 November 2015
“Alien Megastructure” Star's Dimming was Possibly Caused by Comets
... has decided to take a closer look at the mysterious star. They studied observations made in January 2015 by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which is optimized for observation in infrared wavelengths. Simply put, when dust warms up, it emits infrared...
February 2016
How to Build Planets
... and MIR excesses can be an indication of something different altogether. Artist’s impression of a ‘Hot Jupiter’ Observations with the Spitzer Space Telescope of discs lacking these two excesses indicate that the fledgling protostar is on its way...
