Spitzer
Baby Boomer Galaxy Found
This galaxy, Zw II 96 (about 500 million light-years away) resembles the Baby Boom galaxy which lies about 12.3 billion…
Mysterious Omega Centauri Dazzling in Infrared: New Spitzer Observations
By combining ground-based optical observations with space-borne infrared images from Spitzer, an incredible new view of mysterious Omega Centauri has…
Time Traveling With Spitzer
While time travel is seemingly impossible, we can actually look back in time with our telescopes to learn about the…
Could AA Tauri Hold the Biochemical Key to Extra-Terrestrial Life?
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has measured huge quantities of water and organic compounds surrounding the star AA Tauri, 450 light…
Spitzer Sees a Baby Star Blowing Bubbles
A new image released from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows a baby star blowing bubbles, just like, I guess, a…
Galaxy Caught Stealing Gas
Out there, in the darkness of space, a galaxy is committing a robbery. The robber, known as 3C 326 North…
Hidden Cluster Seen For the First Time
This newly released photograph taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope is of a previously hidden star cluster, revealed now in…
Four Galaxies in a Cosmic Collision
Galaxies aren't born, they evolve, getting built up through a succession of mergers over billions of years. In most cases,…
Life’s Building Blocks Can Survive a Supernova
Here's a cool photograph of supernova remnant N132D. It's actually a composite image, made up of pictures gathered by the…
Spitzer Shows Young Stars Hatching in Orion
The latest image released from the Spitzer Space Telescope shows infant stars "hatching" in the head of Orion. Astronomers think…