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Latest Features

NASA's Spitzer Sees the Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared ...

These images are some of the first to be taken during Spitzer's warm mission

08.05.09

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is starting a second career and taking its first shots of the cosmos since warming up.

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Astronomers Find Hyperactive Galaxies in the Early Univ...

08.05.09

Fast-moving stars shed new light on how these distant galaxies, which are a fraction the size of our Milky Way, may have evolved into the full-grown galaxies seen around us today.

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Warmed Up and Ready to Go

07.27.09

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has put its infrared eyes back on the sky to observe the cold and dusty universe.

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NASA Celebrates Chandra's 10th Anniversary

Ten years ago, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia and deployed into orbit.
NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark -- a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center.
Engineers Learn How to Assemble 'Eye' of Telescope

NASA and Northrop Grumman are training their engineers on how to handle and assemble the telescope's Optical Telescope Element, also known as the 'eye' of the telescope.
Herschel Instruments Get First Peek at Cosmos

All three of Herschel's instruments have now opened their eyes and collected their first astronomy data.
Coldest Known Objects in Space

The detectors on a Planck instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273.05 degrees Celsius, making them the coldest known objects in space.

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NASA'S Kepler Mission Spies Changing Phases in a Distant World

08.06.09 - NASA's new exoplanet-hunting Kepler space telescope has detected the atmosphere of a known giant gas planet, demonstrating the telescope's extraordinary scientific capabilities.
NASA'S Spitzer Sees the Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared Eyes

08.05.09 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is starting a second career and taking its first shots of the cosmos since warming up.