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The Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Its Incredible Journey
While the Spitzer Space Telescope might have been launched in ... Rather than operating in low Earth orbit like the Hubble Space Telescope, SIRTF would be launched into deep space.
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Night Vision—Spitzer Space Telescope
Lyman Spitzer, the American astrophysicist for whom the telescope is named, pointed out the advantages of space telescopes back ... to absolute zero, and an orbit far from Earth's distracting ...
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Powerful Webb Telescope captures photos of one of the earliest supernova ever seen
Scientists targeted a light echo previously observed by NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope ... and Neptune's orbit is 60 astronomical units in diameter. "We did not know that the ...
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NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has reached the end of its historic 17-year mission
The Spitzer Space Telescope mission will soon end, and NASA is using this as an opportunity to celebrate all the success the telescope has enjoyed during its lengthy tenure in space. In a new post ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...
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TRAPPIST-1 Planet May Be Boiling Its Own Atmosphere
Astronomers have been keenly interested in the TRAPPIST-1 system ever since the Spitzer Space Telescope identified an incredible seven Earth-like exoplanets in orbit of the star. They might not be ...
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Hubble Space Telescope
The new instrument will orbit much farther from Earth (940,000 ... The group also includes the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Spitzer is an infrared orbiting telescope ...
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16 years later, NASA says goodbye to the Spitzer Space Telescope
NASA has today announced that they would be officially saying goodbye to the Spitzer Space Telescope. As a new telescope is on the brink of completion, Splitzer's time is unfortunately up.
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A new ‘dark’ planet on NASA’s radar might hold the key to what makes or breaks a planet
The Spitzer Space Telescope has been observing a planet that’s 1.3 times larger than the Earth and 48.6 light years away. And, it completes its orbit in a mere 11 hours. But, it has one critical ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
In late February, if all goes to plan, a new character will enter NASA's space telescope epic ... eyes on the sky — like the now-retired Spitzer Telescope, and even Hubble has some capabilities ...