Spitzer
Big or Small, All Stars Form the Same Way
[/caption] How do massive stars form? This has been one of the more hotly debated questions in astronomy. Do big…
14 years ago
Spitzer Spies Earliest Black Holes
[/caption] The Spitzer Space Telescope has found what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black…
15 years ago
This Week’s astro-ph Preprints: Jean Tate’s Best Pick
It goes by the super-catchy (not!) title "A Catalog of MIPSGAL Disk and Ring Sources". I chose it, over 213…
15 years ago
Spitzer, the Wallpaper Factory, Does it Again
At the end of the proverbial day, space-based missions like Spitzer produce millions of observations of astronomical objects, phenomena, and…
15 years ago
Rocky Planets May Form Around Most Sun-like Stars
Astronomers have found numerous Jupiter-like planets orbiting other stars. But because of the limits of our current technology, they haven't…
17 years ago