News Archive / Tagged: Spitzer

• Ultrahot Jupiters destroy water

  Jim SharkeyAugust 15th, 2018

  "Ultrahot Jupiters" are a class of incredibly hot giant exoplanets that orbit their star more closely than Mercury orbits the Sun. These worlds, such as Wasp-121b, are tidally locked, meaning one side of the planet permanently faces its star. But what separates this world from others?

• Testing begins on a new instrument to be added to NASA’s flying observatory

  Britt RawcliffeJune 5th, 2014

  NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) is getting outfitted with a new instrument which is set to provide astronomers and scientists with observations only possible from the sky. The high-resolution, mid-infrared spectrograph, called the Echelon-Cross-Echelle Spectrograph (EXES), began testing on the nights of April 7 and 9, according to Matthew Richter, leader of the […]

• NASA’s Spitzer Telescope brings 360-degree view of galaxy to our fingertips

  Press ReleaseMarch 22nd, 2014

  Touring the Milky Way now is as easy as clicking a button with NASA’s new zoomable, 360-degree mosaic presented Thursday at the TEDActive 2014 Conference in Vancouver, Canada.

• AAS Meeting Highlights Several New Hubble Science Findings

  Press ReleaseJanuary 9th, 2014

  NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope is providing a new perspective on the remote universe, including new views of young and distant galaxies bursting with stars. Scientists described the findings Tuesday in a news conference sponsored by the American Astronomical Society (AAS).