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Spitzer Space Telescope

Distant Star Goes Disco

February 8, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter A disco inferno in space? Astronomers have been keeping an eye on an unusual star that unleashes a burst of light every 25 days, like an extremely slow pulsating disco ball. Similar pulsating bursts of light have been seen before, but [...]

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Combining Light to Reveal Monster Black Holes

December 13, 2012

NGC 3627 glows in the combined light of Hubble, Chandra, Spitzer and the Very Large Telescope in this image. Astronomers conducted a survey of 62 galaxies, including NGC 3627 to study monster black holes at their centers. It’s not just pretty, it’s science. Like a starry watercolor, astronomers combining light from Earth and space-based observatories [...]

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Now Even Further: Ancient Galaxy is Latest Candidate for Most Distant

November 15, 2012

It seems that every few months or so comes a new discovery of a new “most distant galaxy ever found.” It’s not really a surprise that new benchmarks are reached with such an amazing frequency as our telescopes get better and astronomers refine their techniques for observing faraway and ancient objects. This latest “most distant” [...]

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Eye-Like Helix Nebula Turns Blue in New Image

October 4, 2012

A combined image of the Helix Nebula from the Spitzer Space Telescope,the Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) and the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).. Credit: NASA/Caltech The Helix Nebula has been called the “Eye of God,” or the “Eye of Sauron,” and there’s no denying this object appears to be a cosmic eye looking down on [...]

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Spitzer Provides Most Precise Measurement Yet of the Universe’s Expansion

October 3, 2012

This graph illustrates the Cepheid period-luminosity relationship, which scientists use to calculate the size, age and expansion rate of the Universe. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Carnegie How fast is our Universe expanding? Over the decades, there have been different estimates used and heated debates over those approximations, but now data from the Spitzer Space Telescope have provided the [...]

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