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NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has reached the end of its historic 17-year mission
The Spitzer Space Telescope mission will soon end, and NASA is using this as an opportunity to celebrate all the success the telescope has enjoyed during its lengthy tenure in space. In a new post ...
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The Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Its Incredible Journey
While the Spitzer Space Telescope might have been launched in ... To make matters worse, experiments performed during the STS-51-F mission showed that IR observations made from the Shuttle were ...
SPHEREx space telescope will seek life's ingredients
Where is all the water that may form oceans on distant planets and moons? The SPHEREx astrophysics mission will search the ...
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Night Vision—Spitzer Space Telescope
Since its launch in August 2003, says Robert Kennicutt, an astronomer at the University of Arizona, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope "has opened up half the universe to us." In the process ...
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Hubble Space Telescope
3 min read The Hubble Space Telescope was designed to ... otherwise be distorted by Earth's atmosphere. Spitzer scientists often describe their mission as a search for "the old" (the universe's ...
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Telescope Meant to Hunt for Water in Cosmic Dust Grains Ready for Launch
The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization, and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is scheduled to launch after February 27, 2025 ...
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2 space telescope designs will battle it out to become NASA's next cosmic imager
PRIMA would be 100 times more sensitive than its precursor missions, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the European Space Agency's Herschel Space Observatory, and the team behind it claim that it ...
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16 years later, NASA says goodbye to the Spitzer Space Telescope
NASA has today announced that they would be officially saying goodbye to the Spitzer Space Telescope. As a new telescope is on the brink of completion, Splitzer's time is unfortunately up.
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China announces its new flagship space telescope mission
The others are Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope. Scientifically, orbiting space telescopes offer huge payoffs across a wide range of the ...
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Space photos of the day: Spitzer Space Telescope
Here, you’ll find award-winning journalism not driven by commercial influences – a news organization that takes seriously its mission to uplift the world by seeking solutions and finding ...
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Spitzer Space Telescope vs. James Webb Space Telescope (IMAGE)
This side-by-side image compares the resolution of a distant galaxy imaged by the Spitzer Space Telescope in the near-infrared, left, to a simulated image from the Webb telescope. Disclaimer ...