Homes Away From Home? Revisiting the Seven Planets of TRAPPIST-1
One year ago, astronomers announced the discovery that seven roughly Earth-sized worlds orbited around the nearby star TRAPPIST-1. Now a yea...
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Hidden Universe HD: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
Witness our universe in a whole new way! This video series (in 720p High Definition for Apple TV and hi-res monitors) highlights some of the most exciting discoveries from NASA's Spitzer Spa...
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Improving Brown Dwarf Weather Forecasts
This artist's concept animation shows a brown dwarf with bands of clouds, thought to resemble those seen on Neptune and the other outer plan...
5000 Days in the Life of an Astronomy Robot
May 3rd, 2017 marks the 5,000th day of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope mission. This video gives us a detailed look at six of these days, sho...
Spitzer Beyond
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which launched Aug. 25, 2003, will begin an extended mission—the “Beyond” phase—on Oct. 1, 2016.
The Wild Temperature Swings of an Exoplanet
The exoplanet HD80606 b spends most of its time far from its star, but every 111 days it swings in feverishly close. NASA's Spitzer Space Te...
Catching a GLIMPSE of the Milky Way
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 o...
10 Years of Innovation
On August 25, 2003, NASA launched the Spitzer Space Telescope to reveal secrets of the infrared universe.
Possible Nearby Exoplanet Smaller than Earth (Update)
Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is an alien world just two-thirds the size of Earth - one o...
Cygnus X Marks the Spot (Gallery Explorer)
Over the last half century this Cygnus X has been yielding its secrets to the scrutiny of infrared observations. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telesc...
The Galactic Center Revisited (Hidden Universe Gallery Explorer)
Hiding behind the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius is the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, over 25,000 light years away. This patc...
The North America Nebula (Gallery Explorer)
Seen here in visible light, the North America Nebula strangely resembles its namesake continent. Expanding our view to include infrared ligh...
The Art of Exoplanets
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...
The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS)
Today's telescopes study the sky across the electromagnetic spectrum. Each part of the spectrum tells us different things about the Universe...
The Dragon and the Swan (Hidden Universe Gallery Explorer)
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...
When Worlds Collide (Showcase)
When worlds collide, the result is spectacular, and astronomers think they’ve detected the aftermath of such an event around another star.
The WISE Sky (Gallery Explorer)
In December of 2009, NASA launched its latest infrared telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. This satellite, also known as WIS...
The Many Views of the Milky Way (Gallery Explorer)
In May of 2009, the European Space Agency successfully launched the Herschel Space Observatory, a new eye for the infrared universe. Its 3.5...
The One Ring of Saturn (Showcase)
Astronomers have found One Ring to rule them all, not in the land of Mordor, but around Saturn, the Lord of the Rings of the solar system.
Cooking Up Cometary Crystals (Hidden Universe)
The fading light of a flaring young star has shed light on a puzzle involving crystals and comets.
Orion Nebula (Gallery Explorer)
Explore the dusty secrets of the Orion Nebula through Spitzer's infrared vision.