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A composite image of the Orion Nebula, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope in observations made over many years. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech STScI

Vortices of chaos at the heart of the Orion Nebula

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Gaseous swirls of hydrogen, sulfur and hydrocarbons cradle a collection of baby stars in this composite image of the Orio Nebula as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope
The Spitzer Space Telescope is in orbit. Image: NASA

NASA's Spitzer space telescope ends its life after 16 years of astronomical discoveries

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This image, taken in March 2010 by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and released this week to mark the telescope's 15th anniversary, shows the remains of the supernova HBH 3. Infrared wavelengths at a wavelength of 3.6 microns are mapped in blue, and light at a wavelength of 4.5 microns is translated into red The white color of the star-forming region is a combination of two wavelengths, while HBH3's "filaments" radiate only at a wavelength of 4.5 microns. In 2016, NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Telescope detected a plume of gamma radiation coming from the region near HBH 3. This emission may come from gas within one of the star-forming regions near the supernova that has collided with particles ejected from the supernova itself. Photo: NASA

The pale ghost of a star long dead

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Orion Nebula, from an innovative video released by the American Space Agency that combines the Hubble Space Telescope (visible light) and Spitzer Space Telescope (infrared) images and provides a spectacular XNUMXD virtual view of the colorful nebula. Source: NASA.

NASA takes you on a virtual journey through the Orion Nebula

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Simulation of the surface of the sky as it might be seen from the surface of the planet TRAPPIST-1f, one of the three new planets found in the host region of the dwarf star TRAPPIST-1. The seven planets in his planetary system are so close together that they can be clearly seen from the surface of one of them. Imaging: NASA/JPL-Caltech.

A system of seven Earth-like planets was discovered, three of them in the zone suitable for the existence of liquid water

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Illustration illustrating the possible appearance of the planet HD 219134b, a super-Earth that is part of a system with a rocky inner planet and a gaseous outer planet. Photo: University of Geneva

Solar System 2.0 - four planets discovered around a star 21 light years away, arranged like in our solar system

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A view of a cluster of young stars (million years old), known as the North American Nebula or the Plesian Nebula (top right). This is a clean and processed version of the original Spitzer Space Telescope image. NASA/JPL-Caltech. Illustration: shutterstock

New video: A high-resolution tour of the center of the Milky Way

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Artist's rendering of the brown dwarf WISE J085510.83-071442.5. The Sun is the bright star just to the right of the brown dwarf. Image: Robert Hart of JPL, Janella Williams of Pennsylvania State University

A new neighbor to the solar system has been discovered - a cold and dark brown dwarf

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Image: This artist's rendering shows the Spitzer Space Telescope surrounded by examples of the planets it has examined. Photo: NASA / JPL - Caltech

The Spitzer Space Telescope has been converted - to search for planets

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These two images show the same piece of sky in the Boötes group, known as the "rapid accretion belt. The area covers one degree by 0.12 degrees. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC

Spitzer captured the oldest light in the universe

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The composite image of ARP 147 contains X-ray information in pink, Hubble image in red, green and blue, as well as ultraviolet, GALEX satellite data in green and Spitzer data in red.

rings of black holes

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NASA discovered bucky balls in space

A NASA telescope detected fullerene compounds in space for the first time

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Artist's impression of a disk surrounding a young giant star. Astronomers have for the first time been able to clearly look at a disk of dust closely surrounding a young giant star. This discovery provides direct evidence that massive stars form in the same way as their smaller brothers and thus closes a heated debate. The artist's rendering shows what such a massive disk might look like. Photo: ESO/L. Calçada

Meet the Titans: A disc of dust has been found around a massive star

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A galaxy collision restarts a black hole

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Spitzer photographed the Big Eye galaxy

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Galactic conflict

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Dead stars tell the story of the formation of solar systems

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The new map of the Milky Way: a galaxy with 2 arms

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Spitzer discovered thousands of galaxies in a huge cluster

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

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Cancer death

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Sunrise in the cosmic mountains - Spitzer's most beautiful photograph

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Spitzer: Planets also form around brown dwarfs

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

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Spitzer revealed hidden, hungry black holes

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