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NASA’s Great Observatories Provide a Sparkly New View of the Small Magellanic Cloud

April 3, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter This is just pretty! NASA’s Great Observatories — the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Spitzer Infrared Telescope — have combined forces to create this new image of the Small Magellanic Cloud. The SMC is one of the [...]

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Clouds of Sand and Iron Swirl in a Failed Star’s Extreme Atmosphere

January 9, 2013

Artist’s concept of brown dwarf  2MASSJ22282889-431026 (NASA/JPL-Caltech) The complex weather patterns within the atmosphere of a rapidly-rotating brown dwarf have been mapped in the highest detail ever by researchers using the infrared abilities of NASA’s Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes… talk about solar wind! Remove this ad

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Dark Matter Halos May Contain Stars

October 24, 2012

The image on the left shows a portion of our sky, called the Boötes field, in infrared light, while the image on the right shows a mysterious, background infrared glow captured by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope in the same region of sky.Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech What causes the mysterious glow of radiation seen across the entire sky [...]

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Mysterious Arc of Light Spotted with Spitzer Telescope

June 26, 2012

From a JPL press release: Seeing is believing, except when you don’t believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling arc of light behind an extremely massive cluster of galaxies residing 10 billion light-years away. The galactic grouping, discovered by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, was observed as it existed [...]

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Spitzer Captures Ancient Fireworks of First Objects in the Universe

June 7, 2012

The Spitzer Space Telescope has looked back in time to see what scientists called the “faint, lumpy glow” given off by the very first objects in the Universe, and these ancient objects obviously provided some early cosmic fireworks. While they are too faint and distant to figure out what the individual objects are – they [...]

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