Post by glactus on Jan 6, 2012 2:45:57 GMT
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope was launched on August 25, 2003 from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Base. Drifting in a unique Earth-trailing orbit around the Sun, Spitzer sees an optically invisible universe dominated by dust and stars.
The Spitzer Space Telescope
Spider is a technological marvel, featuring many innovations never before used on a space mission. It may seem like a contradiction, but Spitzer needs to be simultaneously "cold" and "warm" to function properly.
Spitzer's Universe
This advanced space instrument has given astronomers a unique insight of the Universe, sending back the most highest resolution imagery ever obtained and is a major tool in our search for planets that dwell in the habitable zone of their parent star.
Images of Galaxies by Spitzer
To see video of just click on the link below. Has sound. Full screen option bottom right.
www.spitzer.caltech.edu/video-audio/1365-hiddenuniverse-034-The-Art-of-Exoplanets
Credits: These are NASA images
Text by NASA
Video by Spitzer/Caltech
The Spitzer Space Telescope
Spider is a technological marvel, featuring many innovations never before used on a space mission. It may seem like a contradiction, but Spitzer needs to be simultaneously "cold" and "warm" to function properly.
Spitzer's Universe
This advanced space instrument has given astronomers a unique insight of the Universe, sending back the most highest resolution imagery ever obtained and is a major tool in our search for planets that dwell in the habitable zone of their parent star.
Images of Galaxies by Spitzer
To see video of just click on the link below. Has sound. Full screen option bottom right.
www.spitzer.caltech.edu/video-audio/1365-hiddenuniverse-034-The-Art-of-Exoplanets
Credits: These are NASA images
Text by NASA
Video by Spitzer/Caltech