But the Spitzer telescope's infrared vision is the keenest ever, thanks to a mirror nearly three feet (0.9 meters) across, sensitive detectors cooled almost to absolute zero, and an orbit far from ...

"We are literally mapping the entire celestial sky in 102 infrared colors for the first time in humanity's history." ...

While the Spitzer Space Telescope might have been launched in ... Rather than operating in low Earth orbit like the Hubble Space Telescope, SIRTF would be launched into deep space.

The James Webb Space Telescope captured photos of one of the earliest supernovas ever seen using infrared technology, and creating a time lapse of the phenomena.

The Spitzer Space Telescope mission will soon end, and NASA is using this as an opportunity to celebrate all the success the telescope has enjoyed during its lengthy tenure in space. In a new post ...

Astronomers have been keenly interested in the TRAPPIST-1 system ever since the Spitzer Space Telescope identified an incredible seven Earth-like exoplanets in orbit of the star. They might not be ...

The new instrument will orbit much farther from Earth (940,000 ... The group also includes the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Spitzer is an infrared orbiting telescope ...

Sometimes, scientists get lucky: In 2012, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope grabbed an image of lacy interstellar medium illuminated by Zeta Ophiuchi, a large star roughly 370 light-years away.

The Spitzer Space Telescope has been observing a planet that’s 1.3 times larger than the Earth and 48.6 light years away. And, it completes its orbit in a mere 11 hours. But, it has one critical ...

Scientists targeted a light echo previously observed by NASA’s retired Spitzer Space Telescope ... and Neptune's orbit is 60 astronomical units in diameter. "We did not know that the ...