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NASA's Spitzer Sees the Light of Alien 'Super Earth'

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected light emanating from a "super-Earth" planet beyond our solar system for the first time.

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NASA's Spitzer Finds Galaxy with Split Personality

While some galaxies are rotund and others are slender disks like our spiral Milky Way, new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that ...

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Artist's concept of Spitzer, Planck and Kepler spacecrafts

NASA Extends Spitzer, Planck, Kepler Missions

NASA is extending three missions affiliated with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. -- Kepler, the Spitzer Space Telescope and the ...

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Cosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making Fuel

Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic leaf blower.

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Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

Citizen Scientists Reveal a Bubbly Milky Way

Volunteers are helping astronomers find star-blown bubbles throughout our Milky Way galaxy.

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Mission Features

Spitzer Snaps a Picture of the Coolest of Companions

10.19.11 - Astronomers find a star with a companion as cool as Earth.
Honeycomb Carbon Crystals Possibly Detected in Space

08.15.11 - Flat flakes of carbon have been tentatively spotted in space.

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