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Bookmark or Share- Spitzer Space Telescope - NASA ScienceNASA's Spitzer was the first telescope to detect light from an exoplanet, or a planet outside our solar system. Spitzer uses an ultra-sensitive infrared telescope to study asteroids, comets, planets and distant galaxies.
- SpitzerSpitzer. Launched in 2003, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope was the fourth and final addition to NASA’s Great Observatory program. Spitzer’s mission was to become NASA’s premier infrared light observatory, offering astronomers the chance to study the universe in this critical part of the electromagnetic spectrum of light with ...
- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Ends Mission of Astronomical ...NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope's mission concluded on Jan. 30, 2020, at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. After more than 16 years of studying the universe in infrared light, the spacecraft entered a state known as safe mode and ceased science operations.
- Spitzer Space Telescope - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)At its launch in 2003, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope was the most sensitive infrared space telescope in history. Its 16-year lifetime revolutionized our view of the cosmos. Spitzer made discoveries from inside our solar system to nearly the edge of the Universe.
- Spitzer Space Telescope - WikipediaThe Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility ( SIRTF ), is an infrared space telescope launched in 2003, that was deactivated when operations ended on 30 January 2020. [5] [9] Spitzer was the third space telescope dedicated to infrared astronomy, following IRAS (1983) and ISO (1995–1998).
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