NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is starting a second career and taking its first shots of the cosmos since warming up. The infrared telescope ran out...
Strange Ring Found Circling a Dead Star Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 - Ehud Rattner NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected an unusual ring of material surrounding the magnetic remains of a blasted star...
Monday, April 14th, 2008 - 14:49:21 - Ehud Rattner
Millions of clustered stars glisten like an iridescent opal in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Called Omega Centauri, this sparkling...
Building Blocks of Life Found in Space Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, U.S. researchers have discovered large amounts of simple organic gases and water vapor...
Water Spirals around a Newborn Star Monday, September 17th, 2007 - Iddo Genuth NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope recently detected tremendous amounts of water vapor inside the accretion disk of a newborn...
Star Tail Monday, August 20th, 2007 - Iddo Genuth NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) telescope was able to take a unique picture of a star with a comet's tail. The...
Planets with 4 Suns Discovered? Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 - Iddo Genuth NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope recently discovered what might be the first planetary system with four Suns. The...