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Armchair Science: Bag and Tag Glowing Galactic Clouds
Citizen scientists are invited to help astronomers by tagging clouds and holes in cosmic images from the Spitzer and Herschel space telescopes.
Read more (Dec. 19)


Shot Away from its Companion, Giant Star Makes Waves
A runaway star can be seen charging through the dust in an infrared portrait from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Read more (Dec. 18)


Little Telescope Spies Gigantic Galaxy Clusters
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is helping to find the rarest and largest of galaxy groupings in the universe.
Read more (Dec. 6)


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PLANET QUEST Exoplanet Exploration

Kepler's big year
Talk about a big year. 2011 turned out to be a banner year for NASA's Kepler mission, with the promise of even more exciting results to come in 2012. PlanetQuest reviews some of Kepler's 2011 highlights.
Read more | PlanetQuest web site


SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE

Bright Lights, Green City
Two extremely bright stars illuminate a greenish mist in this and other images from the new "GLIMPSE360" survey from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
More info | Spitzer site


 

Astrophysics Missions

Galaxy Evolution Explorer
Uses ultraviolet wavelengths to measure the history of star formation 80 percent of the way back to the Big Bang.
› Mission home page

Keck Interferometer
Links two 10-meter (33-foot) telescopes, which form the world's most powerful optical telescope system.
› Telescope home page

Kepler Mission
The Kepler Mission will search for Earth-like planets with the "transit" method.
› Kepler home page

Palomar Observatory
A joint effort between JPL and the California Institute of Technology, the Palomar Observatory houses a collection of famous telescopes.
› Palomar home page

Spitzer Space Telescope
Uses infrared technology to study celestial objects that are too cool, too dust-enshrouded or too far away to otherwise be seen.
› Mission home page

Voyager to the Outer Planets
Voyager 1 and 2 flew past Jupiter and Saturn. Voyager 2 also flew by Uranus and Neptune. Voyager 1 is now approaching interstellar space.
› Mission home page

Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
This camera, designed and built at JPL, served as the main camera capturing pictures on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. It still takes images of planets, stars and galaxies.
› Hubble home page

 

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