This is an infrared spectrograph (IRS) on board the Spitzer Space Telescope. Spectral features of C60 are indicated in red, those of C70 in blue. This image relates to an article that appeared in ...

HH 49/50 is one of these impact sites. It was nicknamed the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its dramatic, swirling shape. Spitzer's ...

Today, after 16 years of exemplary service, NASA will officially deactivate the Spitzer Space Telescope. Operating for over a decade beyond its designed service lifetime, the infrared observatory ...

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

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 ...