Spitzer Space Telescope
Light From a ‘SuperEarth’ Detected for the First Time
[/caption] The star 55 Cancri has been a source of joy and firsts for planet hunters. Not only was it…
Top 10 Really Cool Infrared Images from Spitzer
[/caption] The Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) is a cool camera, no matter what temperature in which it…
Astronomers See Stars Changing Right Before Their Eyes in Orion Nebula
[/caption] A gorgeous new image from the tag team effort of the Herschel and Spitzer Space telescopes shows a rainbow…
Solid Buckyballs in Space are Stacked Like ‘Oranges in a Crate’
[/caption] From a JPL press release: Astronomers using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have, for the first time, discovered…
A Star-Making Blob from the Cosmic Dawn
[/caption] Looking back in time with some of our best telescopes, astronomers have found one of the most distant and…
Evidence of a Late Heavy Bombardment Occuring in Another Solar System
[/caption] Planetary scientists have not been able to agree that a turbulent period in our solar system’s history called the…
Ancient Galaxies Fed On Gas, Not Collisions
[/caption]The traditional picture of galaxy growth is not pretty. In fact, it's a kind of cosmic cannibalism: two galaxies are…
Star Forming Density – How Low Can You Go?
[/caption] The general picture of star formation envisions stars emerging in clusters, having condensed from cores of gas under self…
Spitzer’s Stunning New View of the North American Nebula
[/caption] In visible light, the North American nebula resembles its namesake continent. But looking at it in the infrared spectrum,…
The Strange Warm Spot of upsilon Andromedae b
[/caption] If you set a big black rock outside in the Sun for a few hours, then go and touch…