Spitzer

Spitzer Spies Earliest Black Holes

[/caption] The Spitzer Space Telescope has found what appear to be two of the earliest and most primitive supermassive black…

14 years ago

This Week’s astro-ph Preprints: Jean Tate’s Best Pick

It goes by the super-catchy (not!) title "A Catalog of MIPSGAL Disk and Ring Sources". I chose it, over 213…

14 years ago

Spitzer, the Wallpaper Factory, Does it Again

At the end of the proverbial day, space-based missions like Spitzer produce millions of observations of astronomical objects, phenomena, and…

14 years ago

Rocky Planets May Form Around Most Sun-like Stars

Astronomers have found numerous Jupiter-like planets orbiting other stars. But because of the limits of our current technology, they haven't…

16 years ago