NASA calls Lyman Spitzer Jr. (1914-1997) one of the 20th century's greatest scientists. The longtime Princeton astrophysicist lobbied for a large space telescope as early as 1946, work that ...

The Spitzer Space Telescope, an instrument NASA will be shutting down early next year, captured a stunning image of the Cepheus C and B regions.

This Spitzer Space Telescope image from NASA shows infrared radiation from the Helix Nebula (NGC 7293), which is 700 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius on July 24, 2007.

Sept. 30 (UPI) --New images captured by the Spitzer Space Telescope suggest parts of the Milky Way are bubbling over, like a pot of boiling water.The bubbles reveal the region's intense rate of ...

Infrared data from NASA’s now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope (shown in red, green, and blue) as also included. Cartwheel Galaxy The Cartwheel Galaxy as seen by the James Webb Space Telescope ...

This background image of the region around supernova remnant Cassiopeia A was released by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in 2008. By taking multiple images of this region over three years with ...

Here are some mesmerising deep space images by NASA's Spitzer Telescope. Spitzer was the first telescope by NASA to detect light from a planet outside our solar system. 16 Nov, 2024 ...

The WLM galaxy has also been imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope and the now-decommissioned Spitzer Space Telescope, but JWST’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) captured the galaxy in stunning detail.