Tag: Spitzer Space Telescope

  • Nation & World

    Going the distance with microlensing method

    NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has teamed up with a telescope on the ground to find a remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away, making it one of the most distant planets known, according to the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

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  • Nation & World

    First ‘bone’ of the Milky Way identified

    Astronomers have identified a new structure in the Milky Way: a long tendril of dust and gas that they are calling a “bone.”

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  • Nation & World

    Powerful telescope has scientists seeing red

    In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hidden. Cloaked in dust and dimmed by the intervening distance, even the Hubble Space Telescope couldn’t spy it. It took the revealing power of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope to uncover not one, but four remarkably red…

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