Amy Mainzer is a research scientist at JPL. After obtaining her B.S. in physics at Stanford, she took a year off after graduation to work at Lockheed Martin, where she worked on the Spitzer Space Telescope. She was the principal investigator of a cryogenic camera called the Pointing Calibration and Reference Sensor (PCRS), which serves as the fine guidance sensor for Spitzer. She worked on Spitzer during graduate school in astronomy at Caltech. After receiving her M.S. at Caltech, she finished...
Topics: What -- WISE, Where -- Sofia, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA, Women's, History, Month, Amy,...
Source: http://youtu.be/EDz0AviGge0
The Spitzer Space Telescope has located some elusive carbon molecules floating in space. Called "Buckyballs," due to their resemblance to architect Buckminster Fuller's geodesic domes, these three-dimensional, spherical structures are now the largest molecules known to exist in space, and until now, have escaped detection. Buckyballs hold unique properties in the physical and chemical processes of space .
Topic: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
This new, composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope shows two colliding galaxies more than a 100 million years after they first impacted each other. The continuing collision of the Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, has triggered the formation of millions of stars in clouds of dusts and gas in the galaxies. The X-ray image from Chandra shows huge clouds of hot, interstellar gas that have been...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, Where -- Antennae Galaxies
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May 23, 2011
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May 23, 2011
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This artist's concept shows the closest known planetary system to our own--Epsilon Eridani. Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope show that...
Topics: What -- Epsilon Eridani, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/295901main_image_1237_946-710.jpg
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Mar 28, 2011
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Mar 28, 2011
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While searching the skies for black holes using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers discovered a giant supernova that was smothered in its own dust. In this artist's rendering, an outer shell of gas and dust -- which erupted from the star hundreds of years ago -- obscures the supernova within. This event in a distant galaxy hints at one possible future for the brightest star system in our own Milky Way. Image Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech
Topic: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/510097main_PIA13478.jpg
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Dec 22, 2010
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Dec 22, 2010
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Get ready to gaze at galaxies through your telescope. Then compare your views to those taken in infrared by the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Topic: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/whatsup-view.cfm?WUID=84
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Dec 13, 2010
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Dec 13, 2010
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This artist's animation illustrates vibrating buckyballs -- spherical molecules of carbon discovered in space for the first time by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
Topic: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.m4v/www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/spitzer/20100722/pia13290/pia13290-1280-i.m4v
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Dec 13, 2010
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Dec 13, 2010
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This animation illustrates that buckyballs -- discovered in space by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope -- closely resemble old fashioned, black-and-white soccer balls, only on much smaller scales.
Topic: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.m4v/www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/spitzer/20100722/pia13289/pia13289-1280-i.m4v
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Dec 13, 2010
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Dec 13, 2010
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The World Cup may be over, but there are soccer balls still bouncing in space. Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered soccer-ball-shaped molecules, known as ''buckyballs.''
Topic: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.m4v/www.jpl.nasa.gov/videos/spitzer/spitzer20100723/spitzer20100722-1280-i.m4v
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Nov 19, 2010
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Nov 19, 2010
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Two extremely bright stars illuminate a greenish mist in this image from the Spitzer Space Telescope's ''GLIMPSE360'' survey. This mist is comprised of hydrogen and carbon compounds called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), which also are found here on Earth in sooty vehicle exhaust and on charred grills. In space, PAHs form in the dark clouds that give rise to stars. These molecules provide astronomers a way to visualize the peripheries of gas clouds and study their structures in great...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Earth, Where -- Wisconsin
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/473892main_1736_full.jpg
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Nov 18, 2010
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Nov 18, 2010
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The Orion Nebula is a 'happening' place where stars are born and this colony of hot, young stars is stirring up the cosmic scene in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The young stars dip and peak in brightness; shifting cold and hot spots on the stars' surfaces cause brightness levels to change. In addition, surrounding disks of lumpy planet-forming material can obstruct starlight. Spitzer is keeping tabs on the young stars, providing data on their changing ways. The hottest stars...
Topics: What -- Orion, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/471053main_spitzer20100401-full_full.jpg
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Nov 9, 2010
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Nov 9, 2010
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The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from NASA's Great Observatories--the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold and brown), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (red). The Antennae galaxies take their name from the long antenna-like ''arms,'' seen in wide-angle views of the system. These features were produced by tidal forces generated in the collision. The collision, which began more than 100 million...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, Where --...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/485190main_antennae_print3_full.jpg
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Nov 6, 2010
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Nov 6, 2010
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Giant planet GJ 436b in the constellation Leo is missing something--and that something is swamp gas. To the surprise of astronomers who have been studying the Neptune-sized planet using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, GJ 436b has very little methane--an ingredient common to many planets in our own solar system. This artist's concept shows the unusual, methane-free world partially eclipsed by its star. Models of planetary atmospheres indicate that any world with the common mix of hydrogen,...
Topics: What -- Neptune, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, Where -- Leo I
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/481304main_spitzer20100421-a-full_full.jpg
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Nov 5, 2010
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Nov 5, 2010
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This image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) takes in several interesting objects in the constellation Cassiopeia, none of which are easily seen in visible light. The red circle visible in the upper left part of the image is SN 1572, often called ''Tycho's Supernova.'' This remnant of a star explosion is named after the astronomer Tycho Brahe, although he was not the only person to observe and record the supernova. When the supernova first appeared in November 1572, it was...
Topics: What -- Explorer, What -- WISE, What -- Cassiopeia, What -- Visible Light, What -- Venus, What --...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/468387main_pia13119-full_full.jpg
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Oct 25, 2010
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Oct 25, 2010
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The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth, are shown in this composite image from NASA's Great Observatories--the Chandra X-ray Observatory (blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold and brown), and the Spitzer Space Telescope (red). The Antennae galaxies take their name from the long antenna-like 'arms,' seen in wide-angle views of the system. These features were produced by tidal forces generated in the collision. The collision, which began more than 100 million...
Topics: What -- Earth, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, Where --...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/485190main_antennae_print3_full.jpg
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Sep 29, 2010
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Sep 29, 2010
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NASA
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NASA and the European Space Agency ESA have joined forces and resources to explore the Red Planet.* Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are getting their ATHLETE some exercise.* This new composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the Spitzer Space Telescope shows two colliding galaxies more than a 100 million years after they first impacted each other.* A half-dozen students participating in NASA’s INSPIRE summer internship program at the Dryden...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope HST, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Echo 1, Where -- Jet...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/twan_8_6_10.html
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Jul 21, 2010
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Jul 21, 2010
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
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Tycho's Supernova, the red circle visible in the upper left part of the image, is SN 1572 is a remnant of a star explosion is named after the astronomer Tycho Brahe, although he was not the only person to observe and record the supernova. When the supernova first appeared in November 1572, it was as bright as Venus and could be seen in the daytime. Over the next two years, the supernova dimmed until it could no longer be seen with the naked eye. In the 1950s, the remnants of the supernova could...
Topics: What -- Venus, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- WISE, What -- Cassiopeia
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1713.html
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Apr 1, 2010
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Apr 1, 2010
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NASA
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This new composite image from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope shows the dusty remains of a collapsed star, the dust from which is flying past and engulfing a nearby family of stars. Scientists believe the stars in the image are part of a stellar cluster in which a supernova exploded. Material ejected in the explosion now blows past these stars at high velocities. In this image of G54.1+0.3, X-ray data from Chandra are shown in blue, and data from Spitzer in green (a...
Topic: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1625.html
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Mar 20, 2010
03/10
Mar 20, 2010
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
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This image of the open star cluster NGC 7380, also known as the Wizard Nebula, is a mosaic of images from the WISE mission spanning an area on the sky of about 5 times the size of the full moon. NGC 7380 is located in the constellation Cepheus about 7,000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy. The star cluster is embedded in a nebula, which spans some 110 light-years. The stars of NGC 7380 have emerged from this star-forming region in the last 5 million years or so, making it a...
Topics: What -- WISE, What -- Moon, What -- Cepheus, What -- Earth, What -- Explorer, What -- COMETS, What...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1615.html
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Mar 18, 2010
03/10
Mar 18, 2010
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NASA/Bill Ingalls
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden speaks at the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society AAS in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2009. Throughout the meeting, NASA research and mission highlights will be presented from missions that include Kepler, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the newly launched Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Topics: Who -- Charles Bolden, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Hubble Space Telescope HST, What --...
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Mar 18, 2010
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Mar 18, 2010
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NASA/Bill Ingalls
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden speaks at the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society AAS in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2009. Throughout the meeting, NASA research and mission highlights will be presented from missions that include Kepler, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the newly launched Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Topics: Who -- Charles Bolden, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Hubble Space Telescope HST, What --...
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Mar 18, 2010
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Mar 18, 2010
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NASA/Bill Ingalls
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden speaks at the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society AAS in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2009. Throughout the meeting, NASA research and mission highlights will be presented from missions that include Kepler, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the newly launched Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Topics: Who -- Charles Bolden, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Hubble Space Telescope HST, What --...
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Mar 18, 2010
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Mar 18, 2010
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NASA/Bill Ingalls
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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden speaks at the 215th meeting of the American Astronomical Society AAS in Washington on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2009. Throughout the meeting, NASA research and mission highlights will be presented from missions that include Kepler, the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope, and the newly launched Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
Topics: Who -- Charles Bolden, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Hubble Space Telescope HST, What --...
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Mar 9, 2010
03/10
Mar 9, 2010
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NASA, ESA
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Several of the dwarf galaxies in the Hickson Compact Group 31 are slowly merging. Will the result of these galactic collisions be one big elliptical galaxy? Most assuredly. The pictured galaxies of Hickson Compact Group 31 will pass through and destroy each other, millions of stars will form and explode, and thousands of nebula will form and dissipate before the dust settles and the final galaxy emerges about one billion years from now. The above image is a composite of images taken in infrared...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- GALEX, What -- Visible Light, What -- Hubble Space...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1602.html
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Mar 9, 2010
03/10
Mar 9, 2010
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NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI
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This infrared portrait of the Small Magellanic Cloud, taken by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, reveals stars and dust in this galaxy as never seen before. T The image shows the main body of the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is comprised of the ''bar'' and ''wing'' on the left and the ''tail'' extending to the right. The bar contains both old stars (in blue) and young stars lighting up their natal dust (green/red). The wing mainly contains young stars. The tail contains only gas, dust and newly...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, Where -- Small Magellanic Cloud, Where -- Large Magellanic Cloud
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1581.html
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Mar 9, 2010
03/10
Mar 9, 2010
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NASA, JPL-Caltech, Susan Stolovy (SSC/Caltech) et al.
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The center of our Milky Way Galaxy is hidden from the prying eyes of optical telescopes by clouds of obscuring dust and gas. But, in this stunning vista, the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared cameras penetrate much of the dust, revealing the stars of the crowded galactic center region. A mosaic of many smaller snapshots, this detailed, false-color image shows older, cool stars in bluish hues. Reddish glowing dust clouds are associated with young, hot stars in stellar nurseries. The galactic...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Sagittarius, Where -- Milky Way Galaxy, Where -- Jet...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1439.html
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Mar 8, 2010
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Mar 8, 2010
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NASA
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Cepheus B, a molecular cloud located in our Milky Galaxy about 2,400 light years from the Earth, provides an excellent model to determine how stars are formed. This composite image of Cepheus B combines data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Spitzer Space Telescope. A molecular cloud is a region containing cool interstellar gas and dust left over from the formation of the galaxy and mostly contains molecular hydrogen. The Spitzer data, in red, green and blue shows the molecular cloud...
Topics: What -- Cepheus, What -- Earth, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1444.html
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Mar 8, 2010
03/10
Mar 8, 2010
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NASA/JPL-Caltech
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has imaged a wild creature of the dark -- a coiled galaxy with an eye-like object at its center.The 'eye' at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. The galaxy, called NGC 1097 and located 50 million light-years away, is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars....
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Sun, Where -- NGC 1
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1442.html
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Feb 12, 2010
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Feb 12, 2010
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Two spectacular tails of X-ray emission have been seen trailing behind a galaxy using the Chandra X-ray Observatory. A composite image of the galaxy cluster Abell 3627 shows X-rays from Chandra in blue, optical emission in yellow and emission from hydrogen light -- known to astronomers as 'H-alpha' -- in red. The optical and H-alpha data were obtained with the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) Telescope in Chile. At the front of the tail is the galaxy ESO 137-001. The brighter of the two...
Topics: What -- ESO, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Sun, Where -- Chile
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1570.html
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Feb 11, 2010
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Feb 11, 2010
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This composite color infrared image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy reveals a new population of massive stars and new details in complex structures in the hot ionized gas swirling around the central 300 light-years. This sweeping panorama is the sharpest infrared picture ever made of the Galactic core and offers a laboratory for how massive stars form and influence their environment in the often violent nuclear regions of other galaxies. This view combines the sharp imaging of the Hubble...
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1578.html
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Feb 11, 2010
02/10
Feb 11, 2010
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NASA
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Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have found a likely solution to a centuries-old riddle of the night sky. Every 27 years, a bright star called Epsilon Aurigae fades over period of two years, then brightens. Although amateur and professional astronomers have observed the system extensively, the nature of both the bright star and the companion object that periodically eclipses it have remained unclear. The companion is known to be surrounded by a dusty disk, as illustrated in...
Topic: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1580.html
This view of the supernova remnant obtained by the Spitzer Space Telescope on June 1, 2005 shows the infrared view of this complex object. The blue region traces the cloud of energetic electrons trapped within the star's magnetic field, emitting so-called "synchrotron" radiation. The yellow-red features follow the well-known filamentary structures that permeate this nebula. Though they are known to contain hot gasses, their exact nature is still a mystery that astronomers are...
Topic: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/crab/more.html
This infrared image from the Spitzer Space telescope [ http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2006-09/ssc2006-09a.shtml ] shows Messier 82, an irregular-shaped galaxy positioned on its side, as a diffuse bar of blue light. Fanning out from its top and bottom like the wings of a butterfly are huge red clouds of dust believed to contain a compound similar to car exhaust. The smelly material, called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, can be found on Earth in tailpipes, barbecue pits and...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Earth, Where -- M82
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/m82/more.html
This image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows Cassiopeia A in infrared light. The faint, blue glow surrounding the dead star is material that was energized by a shock wave, called the forward shock, which was created when the star blew up. The forward shock is now located at the outer edge of the blue glow. Stars are also seen in blue. Green, yellow and red primarily represent material that was ejected in the explosion and heated by a slower shock wave, called the reverse shock wave. The...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Cassiopeia, What -- Infrared Array Camera (IRAC)
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/casa/more.html
This image combines data from four different observatories: the Chandra X-ray Observatory (purple); the Galaxy Evolution Explorer satellite (ultraviolet/blue); the Hubble Space Telescope (visible/green); the Spitzer Space Telescope (infrared/red). The unique shape of the Cartwheel Galaxy with its huge rim - larger than the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy - is likely due to a collision with one of the smaller galaxies on the lower left several hundred million years ago. The insets to the right...
Topics: What -- Galaxy Evolution Explorer, What -- Explorer, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What --...
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/cartwheel/more.html
The Spitzer Space Telescope infrared image of NGC 4258 traces the warm dust in the spiral arms, which follow the same structures that are seen in the optical data. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)
Topic: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/ngc4258/more.html
The Eagle Nebula ("Pillars of Creation") looks very different when viewed through three of NASA's orbiting observatories. The infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope and the famous Hubble Space Telescope image show the gas and dust of this star-forming region. The X-ray image from Chandra allows astronomers to peer through the obscuring material, and shows that the Eagle Nebula may be past its prime in terms of making stars. One young star is found inside the pillars, which...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Sun
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/m16/more.html
This image of the Cartwheel Galaxy was taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope in 8 micron infrared. The Cartwheel is part of a group of galaxies about 400 million light years away in the constellation Sculptor [ http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/constellations/sculptor.html ]. (Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech/P.Appleton et al.)
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Constellation, What -- Sculptor
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2006/cartwheel/more.html
Chandra Space Telescope Collection
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Credit: NASA, ESA, A. M. Koekemoer (STScI), M. Dickinson (NOAO) and The GOODS Team
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MPEG This video begins with a combined Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope image, dissolving into a Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope image of one of the identified seven AGNs in the GOODS field (033213.9-275000).
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/goodsbh/animations.html
Chandra Space Telescope Collection
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Jan 5, 2010
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Jan 5, 2010
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Credit: NASA, ESA, A. M. Koekemoer (STScI), M. Dickinson (NOAO) and The GOODS Team
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MPEG This video begins with a combined Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope image, dissolving into a Chandra X-ray Observatory and Spitzer Space Telescope image of another of the identified seven AGNs in the GOODS field (033251.6-275212).
Topics: What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2004/goodsbh/animations.html
Chandra Space Telescope Collection
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Jan 5, 2010
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Jan 5, 2010
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X-ray: NASA/CXC/U.Colorado/Linsky et al.; Optical: NASA/ESA/STScI/ASU/J.Hester & P.Scowen; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSC/N.Flagey & A.Noriega-Crespo
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Different Views of the Eagle Nebula (M16). MPEG The Eagle Nebula (aka, the "Pillars of Creation") looks very different when viewed through three of NASA's orbiting observatories. The infrared image from the Spitzer Space Telescope and the famous Hubble Space Telescope image show the gas and dust of this star-forming region. The X-ray image from Chandra allows astronomers to peer through the obscuring material, and shows that the Eagle Nebula may be past its prime in terms of making...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Hubble Space Telescope (HST), What -- Sun
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/m16/animations.html
Chandra Space Telescope Collection
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Jan 5, 2010
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Jan 5, 2010
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X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Maryland/A.S. Wilson et al. Optical: Optical: Pal.Obs. DSS; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech; VLA: NRAO/AUI/NSF
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MPEG For decades, astronomers have known about the so-called anomalous arms in the spiral galaxy NGC 4258. This motion graphic shows NGC 4258 from the viewpoint of multiple space and ground-based observations. Visible light (seen in gold) from the Digitized Sky Survey and infrared light (red) from the Spitzer Space Telescope reveals two prominent arms. However, radio data (purple) from the Very Large Array and X-ray data (blue) from Chandra show two additional, offset arms. By combining all of...
Topics: What -- Visible Light, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Very Large Array
Source: http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/ngc4258/animations.html
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Dec 2, 2009
12/09
Dec 2, 2009
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NASA
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This artist's concept illustrates the two types of spiral galaxies that populate our universe: those with plump middles, or central bulges (upper left), and those lacking the bulge (foreground). New observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope provide strong evidence that the slender, bulgeless galaxies can, like their chubbier counterparts, harbor supermassive black holes at their cores. Previously, astronomers thought that a galaxy without a bulge could not have a supermassive black hole....
Topic: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1515.html
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Dec 2, 2009
12/09
Dec 2, 2009
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NASA
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This artist's concept shows a celestial body about the size of our moon slamming at great speed into a body the size of Mercury. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope found evidence that a high-speed collision of this sort occurred a few thousand years ago around a young star, called HD 172555, still in the early stages of planet formation. The star is about 100 light-years from Earth. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Topics: What -- Moon, What -- Mercury, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Earth
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1454.html
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Dec 2, 2009
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Like early explorers mapping the continents of our globe, astronomers are busy charting the spiral structure of our galaxy, the Milky Way. Using infrared images from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that the Milky Way's elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Previously, our galaxy was thought to possess four major arms. This artist's concept illustrates the new view of the Milky Way, along with other...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Scutum, What -- Centaurus, What -- Perseus, What -- Norma,...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1455.html
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This artist's conception shows a hypothetical young planet around a cool star. A soupy mix of potentially life-forming chemicals can be seen pooling around the base of the jagged rocks. Observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope hint that planets around cool stars -- the so-called M-dwarfs and brown dwarfs that are widespread throughout our galaxy -- might possess a different mix of life-forming, or prebiotic, chemicals than our young Earth. Life on our planet is thought to have arisen...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Earth, What -- Sun
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_1347.html
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HD 80606b is a gas giant planet in an eccentric orbit around its star. Every 111 days, the planet passes within 2.8 million miles of the star's surface. During the close approach of Nov. 20, 2007, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed the system for 30 hours. Scientists modeled the response of the planet's upper atmosphere to the extreme heating. The animation based on their simulations begins 4.4 days after closest approach, when the hot hemisphere has rotated into view. A massive storm has...
Topics: Gas, HDTV, Universe, Stars, Planets, Spitzer, What -- Spitzer Space Telescope
Source: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/goto?10374
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This diagram illustrates that mature planetary systems like our own might be more common around twin, or binary, stars that are either really close together, or really far apart. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope observed that debris disks, which are signposts of mature planetary systems, are more abundant around the tightest and widest of binary stars it studied. Specifically, the infrared telescope found significantly more debris disks around binary stars that are 0 to 3 astronomical units apart...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Earth, What -- Sun, What -- Jupiter, What -- Pluto
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA09227
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The many "personalities" of our great galactic neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, are exposed in this new composite image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The wide, ultraviolet eyes of Galaxy Evolution Explorer reveal Andromeda's "fiery" nature -- hotter regions brimming with young and old stars. In contrast, Spitzer's super-sensitive infrared eyes show Andromeda's relatively "cool" side, which includes embryonic stars hidden in...
Topics: What -- Andromeda, What -- Galaxy Evolution Explorer, What -- Explorer, What -- Spitzer Space...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08787
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This image composite outlines the region near Orion's sword that was surveyed by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope (white box). The view on the left (figure 1) is from a visible-light telescope, and the view on the right (figure 2) shows infrared light captured by a previous infrared mission, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite. The Orion nebula, our closest massive star-making factory, is the brightest spot near the hunter's sword. On a dark night, it can appear to the naked eye as a fuzzy star,...
Topics: What -- Spitzer Space Telescope, What -- Visible Light, What -- Orion, What -- Constellation, Where...
Source: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08656
