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Warmed Up and Ready to Go
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has put its infrared eyes back on the sky to observe the cold and dusty universe.
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NASA Celebrates Chandra's 10th Anniversary
Ten years ago, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched aboard the space shuttle Columbia and deployed into orbit.
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NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark -- a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center.
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Engineers Learn How to Assemble 'Eye' of Telescope
NASA and Northrop Grumman are training their engineers on how to handle and assemble the telescope's Optical Telescope Element, also known as the 'eye' of the telescope.
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Herschel Instruments Get First Peek at Cosmos
All three of Herschel's instruments have now opened their eyes and collected their first astronomy data.
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Coldest Known Objects in Space
The detectors on a Planck instrument reached their amazingly low operational temperature of -273.05 degrees Celsius, making them the coldest known objects in space.
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NASA'S Fermi Telescope Probes Dozens of Pulsars
With NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers now are getting their best look at those whirling stellar cinders known as pulsars.
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Nobel Prize Winner Describes How Data Turns Into Images
The Blueshift podcast series, kicking off with an interview of Nobel Prize winner Dr. John Mather, offers listeners a backstage pass to Goddard's Astrophysics Science Division's groundbreaking discoveries.
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Herschel Opens Its Infrared Eyes
The Herschel Space Observatory has snapped its first picture since blasting into space on May 14, 2009.
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Galaxies Coming of Age in Cosmic Blobs
The "coming of age" of galaxies and black holes has been pinpointed thanks to new data from Chandra.