Hidden Universe: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
This video series (formatted for standard definition) showcases some of the most exciting discoveries in infrared astronomy from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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Catching a GLIMPSE of the Milky Way
Welcome home! This is our Milky Way galaxy as you’ve ...
Welcome home! This is our Milky Way galaxy as you’ve never seen it before. Ten years in the making, this is the clearest infrared panorama of our galactic home ever made, courtesy of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
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10 Years of Innovation
On August 25, 2003, NASA launched the Spitzer Space Telescope ...
On August 25, 2003, NASA launched the Spitzer Space Telescope to reveal secrets of the infrared universe.
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Possible Nearby Exoplanet Smaller than Earth (Update)
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they ...
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is an alien world just two-thirds the size of Earth - one of the smallest on record!
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Cygnus X Marks the Spot (Gallery Explorer)
Over the last half century this Cygnus X has been ...
Over the last half century this Cygnus X has been yielding its secrets to the scrutiny of infrared observations. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has now provided the best view yet of what we now know is one of the largest single areas of star formation in our Milky Way galaxy.
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The Galactic Center Revisited (Gallery Explorer)
Hiding behind the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius is the center ...
Hiding behind the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius is the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, over 25,000 light years away. This patch of sky is mostly dark in visible light, shrouded by dust clouds that lie between us and the Galactic center. But the infrared vision of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope sees through the dust showing us this strange and tumultuous region.
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The North America Nebula (Gallery Explorer)
Seen here in visible light, the North America Nebula strangely ...
Seen here in visible light, the North America Nebula strangely resembles its namesake continent. Expanding our view to include infrared light, the dark dust lanes and concealed stars glow in red colors while the continental gas clouds shift to an ocean-‐like blue. Pushing entirely into the infrared spectrum, we see even more detail in the convoluted dust clouds.
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The Art of Exoplanets
While astronomers have identified over 500 planets around other stars, ...
While astronomers have identified over 500 planets around other stars, they’re all too small and distant to fill even a single pixel in our most powerful telescopes. That’s why science must rely on art to help us imagine these strange new worlds.
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The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (Special)
Today's telescopes study the sky across the electromagnetic spectrum. Each ...
Today's telescopes study the sky across the electromagnetic spectrum. Each part of the spectrum tells us different things about the Universe, giving us more pieces of the cosmic jigsaw puzzle. The most powerful telescopes on the ground and in space have joined forces over the last decade in a unique observing campaign, known as the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, or GOODS, which reaches across the spectrum and deep back into cosmic time.
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The Dragon and the Swan (Gallery Explorer)
Hidden behind a dark veil of dust in the constellation ...
Hidden behind a dark veil of dust in the constellation Sagittarius, a lurking dragon has been revealed by the infrared eye of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope. It gives us a glimpse into how spiral arms affect the formation of stars.
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When Worlds Collide (Showcase)
When worlds collide, the result is spectacular, and astronomers think ...
When worlds collide, the result is spectacular, and astronomers think they’ve detected the aftermath of such an event around another star.
