Stories about: Spitzer  

The blast cleared a massive path through its surroundings

The agency will decide which missions it will continue to support

The telescope has been observing the night sky for more than a decade

All NASA Great Observatories are involved in this endeavor

The telescope collected this vast amount of data over the past decade

Data from all four observatories were stitched together for this study

Decade-old astronomical mystery finally gets an explanation

The blast was obscured by dust at the core of the Cigar Galaxy

The object is one of the farthest ever discovered

This is one of the most analyzed stellar nurseries in the Universe

Most of these objects feature atmospheres similar to Jupiter's

Scientists look at how the earliest clusters emerged and evolved

One of its members was posing as a massive radiation jet

The study was conducted in radio and infrared wavelengths

Several telescopes pooled their data together to create this photograph

The nebulae showcases what our own solar system will look like in the future

NASA is pointing all its space telescopes at the distant past