Spitzer Space Telescope
Tight Binaries are ‘Death Stars’ for Planets
[/caption] Astronomers studying double star systems where the two stars are extremely close have found a pattern of destruction. While…
Spitzer Peers Into the Small Magellanic Cloud
This week at the AAC Conference, astronomers released a new image of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC, a dwarf galaxy…
Get the Big Picture of the Milky Way at the Adler Planetarium
[/caption] Astronomy is all about getting the big picture of our place in the cosmos, but some pictures are bigger…
Baby Brown Dwarfs Provide Clues to Solve Mystery
Why – and how -- do brown dwarfs form? Since these cosmic misfits fall somewhere between planets and stars in…
Multi-Planet System is Chaotic, Dusty
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured this infrared image of a giant halo of very fine dust around the young star…
Spitzer Watches Planet-Forming Disk Change Quickly
[/caption] Something strange is going on around a young star called LRLL 31. Astronomers have witnessed a swirling disk of…
Trigger-Happy Star Formation in Cepheus B
[/caption] Combining data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Spitizer Space Telescope allowed astronomers to create this gorgeous new…
Spitzer Finds Evidence of Violent Planetary Collision
One of the main theories of how our Moon formed involves a violent cosmic collision between two planets. Astronomers have…