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The Spitzer Space Telescope (formerly SIRTF, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility) was launched into space by a Delta rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 25 August 2003. During its mission, Spitzer obtained images and spectra by detecting the infrared energy, or heat, radiated by objects in space between wavelengths of 3 and 180 microns (1 micron is one-millionth of a meter). Most of this infrared radiation is blocked by the Earth's atmosphere and cannot be observed from the ground. The podcasts below discuss the telescope's various findings and discoveries.
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5 Feb 2010 at 1:00pm
From recent discoveries made by two of NASA's Great Observatories comes new insight into how stars are created. Large nebula's scattered all around our galaxy, act as incubators for newborn stars to ignite and grow.
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4 Sep 2009 at 2:00pm
At the center of our Milky Way galaxy is an area previously unseen by astronomers. Shrouded by clouds of swirling dusts and gases, before now our astronomers could only guess at what might lie behind this thick veil.
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7 Apr 2009 at 12:00pm
Its life Jim, but not as we know it, well at least the building blocks of life. A new study from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope hints that planets around stars cooler than our sun might possess a different mix of potentially life-forming chemicals.
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30 Jan 2009 at 11:00am
Talk about hot flashes! A planet that heats up to extreme temperatures in a matter of hours before quickly cooling back down.
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12 Dec 2008 at 2:00pm
The new record-holder for dimmest known star-like object in the universe goes to twin brown dwarfs, each of which shines feebly with only one millionth the light of our sun.
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13 Nov 2008 at 10:15am
The star Epsilon Eridani is even stranger than fiction. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has shown it has two asteroid belts.
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18 Sep 2008 at 5:00pm
Water is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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25 Aug 2008 at 10:00am
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope continues to surprise astronomers. On its fifth anniversary, we recap some of this Great Observatory's biggest discoveries.
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15 Jul 2008 at 10:00am
A contender for the title of brightest star in our Milky Way galaxy has been unearthed in the dusty metropolis of the galaxy's center.
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13 Jun 2008 at 3:30pm
As a result of a new Spitzer Space Telescope study, two of our own Milky Way Galaxy's spiral arms have gone away.
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| Spitzer Space Telescope Resources
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Spitzer Space Telescope
Portal page for the various Spitzer Space Telescope resources.
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US $20.00
