This limited the telescope’s observations to a minimum wavelength of 4.5 μm, and marked the beginning what mission controllers referred to as the “Spitzer Warm Mission”. An image created ...

Webb’s exquisite details reveal a chance, random alignment of a protostellar outflow and a distant spiral galaxy. When we observe the universe, we're looking at a three-dimensional space projected ...

Since its launch in August 2003, says Robert Kennicutt, an astronomer at the University of Arizona, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope "has opened up half the universe to us." In the process ...

When NASA's now-retired Spitzer Space Telescope first observed Herbig-Haro 49/50 (HH 49/50) in 2006, scientists dubbed it the "Cosmic Tornado" due to its spiral-like appearance.

When the telescope finally became operational in 1990, it began to return unprecedented but flawed images. Its images ... The group also includes the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Chandra ...

We briefly describe some of the main features of SMART, including visualization tools for assessing data quality, basic arithmetic operations for either two‐dimensional images or one ... made with the ...