Spitzer Space Telescope
Baby Brown Dwarfs Provide Clues to Solve Mystery
Why – and how -- do brown dwarfs form? Since these cosmic misfits fall somewhere between planets and stars in…
14 years ago
Multi-Planet System is Chaotic, Dusty
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured this infrared image of a giant halo of very fine dust around the young star…
15 years ago
Spitzer Watches Planet-Forming Disk Change Quickly
[/caption] Something strange is going on around a young star called LRLL 31. Astronomers have witnessed a swirling disk of…
15 years ago
Trigger-Happy Star Formation in Cepheus B
[/caption] Combining data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and the Spitizer Space Telescope allowed astronomers to create this gorgeous new…
15 years ago
Spitzer Finds Evidence of Violent Planetary Collision
One of the main theories of how our Moon formed involves a violent cosmic collision between two planets. Astronomers have…
15 years ago