Spitzer Space Telescope

The Spitzer Space Telescope was able to "see" and "smell" distant planets

The beautiful pages of the Eagle Nebula probably no longer exist

A work of art by nature: Spitzer and Hubble jointly photographed the Orion Nebula

Spitzer "watched" the weather on a planet moving around another sun

Spitzer took the first light pictures of the universe

Spitzer: Planets also form around brown dwarfs

Surprise: a galaxy in the early universe is 8 times larger than the Milky Way

Spitzer found elements of life in the young universe

Massive stars 'spawn' a community of smaller stars

Light of the oldest stars

Stellar embryos discovered in the Triffid Nebula

Budget problems threaten the continued launches of British landers to Mars

SIRTF (Spitzer) sent first images

Spitzer Space Telescope (SIRTF) launched

To explore the hidden universe: NASA launches the last of the large observatories SIRTF (renamed Spitzer)

Spitzer Space Telescope

The Spitzer Space Telescope was able to "see" and "smell" distant planets

The beautiful pages of the Eagle Nebula probably no longer exist

A work of art by nature: Spitzer and Hubble jointly photographed the Orion Nebula

Spitzer "watched" the weather on a planet moving around another sun

Spitzer took the first light pictures of the universe

Spitzer: Planets also form around brown dwarfs

Surprise: a galaxy in the early universe is 8 times larger than the Milky Way

Spitzer found elements of life in the young universe

Massive stars 'spawn' a community of smaller stars

Light of the oldest stars

Stellar embryos discovered in the Triffid Nebula

Budget problems threaten the continued launches of British landers to Mars

SIRTF (Spitzer) sent first images

Spitzer Space Telescope (SIRTF) launched

To explore the hidden universe: NASA launches the last of the large observatories SIRTF (renamed Spitzer)

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