Since its launch in August 2003, says Robert Kennicutt, an astronomer at the University of Arizona, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope "has opened up half the universe to us." In the process ...

Mosaic pattern of the angle of polarization around the L5 point (white dot ... to the fields of view of the imaging polarimetric telescope with which the polarization patterns of the Kordylewski ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University-led research team has developed a deep learning model that uses AI image recognition to ...

The Hubble is just one of NASA's orbiting "great observatories." The group also includes the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Spitzer is an infrared orbiting telescope ...

We briefly describe some of the main features of SMART, including visualization tools for assessing data quality, basic arithmetic operations for either two‐dimensional images or one‐dimensional ...

In this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, "cometary knots" on the Helix Nebula show blue-green heads caused by excitation of their molecular material from shocks or ultraviolet radiation.

Interstellar dust blocks the visible light emitted by the region, but it is revealed in this image by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope which captures infrared light that can penetrate dust clouds.