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5 mJy Extragalactic Spectroscopic Survey
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Top Story
Observations made with
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
reveal six dead "white dwarf" stars littered with the remains of shredded asteroids. This might sound pretty bleak,
but it turns out the chewed-up asteroids are teaching astronomers about the building materials of planets around other stars.
So far, the results suggest that the same materials that make up Earth and our solar system's other rocky bodies could be
common in the universe. If the materials are common, then rocky planets could be, too.
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Featured Presentation
Where did we come from? Are we alone? Using infrared technology, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
will help answer these questions and more. Infrared telescopes allow us to study celestial
objects too hidden, too distant or too cool for us to see using other means.
These hidden worlds, once revealed, may give us clues to the origins of the universe.
Learn more by viewing
"An Infrared Search for Origins".
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IPAC Legacy Gallery Highlight
The familiar winter sky constellation Orion takes on a spectacular guise in the infrared, as seen in this
false-color image constructed from data collected by
IRAS--the Infrared Astronomical Satellite.
New processing techniques have been used to enhance faint details and remove the instrumental artifacts
seen in earlier IRAS images.
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Education Highlight
Our Sun has been steadily fusing hydrogen into helium for the last 5 billion years, and astronomers predict that it will
continue to do the same thing for another 5 billion years, until it runs out of hydrogen. But what happens then? Does the Sun just turn off?
Learn more by watching the latest video from our award winning Ask an Astronomer series:
+ "What will happen to the Earth when the Sun dies?"
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