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November 14, 2008 News and Updates
IRSA and the SSC announce the release of several Spitzer Legacy data sets:
- New deliveries from the "Galactic Legacy Infrared Midplane Survey Extraordinaire" (GLIMPSE) I, II, and 3D projects that include source lists and four-band IRAC image mosaics at two resolutions;
- The first delivery from the "Great Observatory All-sky LIRG Survey" (GOALS), which contains IRS spectra together with images and spatial profiles from IRAC and MIPS for 50 galaxies;
- The first delivery of "Taurus 2: Finishing the Spitzer Map of the Taurus Molecular Clouds" (Taurus), which includes MIPS and IRAC image mosaics and a source catalog.
IRSA announces the release of several new datasets for the Cosmic Evolution Survey (COSMOS). These are the Photometric Redshift Catalog, Spitzer MIPS GO3 images and catalogs, and 10,000 Z-COSMOS optical spectra.
November 14, 2008 Featured Image
The interacting galaxy pair NGC 877 (face-on) and NGC 876 (edge-on) as seen by the GOALS Spitzer Legacy Project. This false-color view is made from IRAC 3.6 (blue), 4.5 (green), and 5.8 (red) um images.