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Spitzer Gives Scientists Depth Perception
05.30.07 - Astronomers now have a new "eye" for determining the distance to certain mysterious bodies in and around our Milky Way galaxy.
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NASA Finds Hot Planet, Makes Exoplanet Weather Map
05.09.07 - Researchers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have learned what the weather is like on two distant, exotic worlds.
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Astronomers Map Out Planetary Danger Zone
04.18.07 - Astronomers have laid down the cosmic equivalent of yellow "caution" tape around super hot stars, marking the zones where cooler stars are in danger of having their developing planets blasted away.
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Spitzer Finds Planets Thrive Around Twin Suns
03.29.06 - The double sunset that Luke Skywalker gazed upon in the film "Star Wars" might not be a fantasy.
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Spitzer Sees Light From Faraway Worlds
02.21.07 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has captured for the first time enough light from planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets, to identify molecules in their atmospheres.
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Comets Clash at Heart of Helix Nebula
02.12.07 - A bunch of rowdy comets are colliding and kicking up dust around a dead star, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Space Pillars Feel the Heat of Star's Explosion
01.09.07 - The three iconic space pillars photographed by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in 1995 might have met their demise, according to new evidence from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Spitzer Sees Universe's First Fireworks
12.18.06 - New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope strongly suggest that infrared light detected in a prior study originated from clumps of the very first objects of the universe.
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Spitzer and Hubble Create Colorful Masterpiece
11.07.06 - A new image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes looks more like an abstract painting than a cosmic snapshot.
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NASA's Spitzer Peels Back Layers of Star's Explosion
10.26.06 - Astronomers using NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered that an exploded star, named Cassiopeia A, blew up in a somewhat orderly fashion, retaining much of its original onion-like layering.
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NASA's Spitzer Sees Day and Night on Exotic World
10.12.06 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has made the first measurements of the day and night temperatures of a planet outside our solar system.
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New Image Shows Eternal Life of Stardust
08.31.06 - A new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is helping astronomers understand how stardust is recycled in galaxies.
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Spitzer: Possible Solar Systems in Orion
08.14.06 - Astronomers have long scrutinized the vast and layered clouds of the Orion nebula, an industrious star-making factory visible to the naked eye in the sword of the famous hunter constellation. Yet, Orion is still full of secrets.
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Planet-Forming Disks Might Slow Stars
07.24.06 - Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have found evidence that dusty disks of planet-forming material tug on and slow down the young, whirling stars they surround.
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Spitzer Helps Solve Mystery of Space Dust
06.08.06 - Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and other telescopes think they've found the source of the dust that permeates the universe. New observations indicate the dust comes from supernovas, violent explosions of massive stars.
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Andromeda Adrift in Sea of Dust in New NASA Image
06.05.06 - The Andromeda galaxy, named for the mythological princess who almost fell prey to a sea monster, appears tranquil in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Spitzer Spies Remnants of a Shy Star
05.12.06 - Big stars usually aren't shy about anything, not even death. At the end of their lives, they throw explosive tantrums, called supernovae, flinging abundant amounts of hot gas and radiation into space.
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Spitzer Sees Trail of Comet Crumbs
05.10.06 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has snapped a picture of the bits and pieces making up Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3, which is continuing to break apart on its periodic journey around the sun.
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Galaxies Don Mask of Stars in New Spitzer Image
04.26.06 - A pair of dancing galaxies appears dressed for a cosmic masquerade in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Spitzer Sees Hints of Planet Birth Near Dead Star
04.05.06 - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has uncovered new evidence that planets might rise up out of a dead star's ashes.