Tag: Spitzer space telescope

A 12-year study of massive stars has reaffirmed that our Galaxy has four spiral arms, following years of debate sparked by images taken by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope that only showed two arms. (c) University of Leeds

The Milky Way grows back two spiral arms

by Tibi Puiu

December 20, 2013 - Updated on January 6, 2014

Milky Way over Joshua Tree National Park - Photo taken by Manish Mamtani via EarthSky. There ...

These are NASA Hubble Space Telescope natural-color images of four target galaxy clusters that are part of an ambitious new observing program called The Frontier Fields. NASA's Great Observatories are teaming up to look deeper into the universe than ever before. The foreground clusters range in distance from 3 billion to 5 billion light-years from Earth. (c) NASA/ESA

NASA’s great observatories combine to probe deeper in the Universe

by Tibi Puiu

October 29, 2013

These are NASA Hubble Space Telescope natural-color images of four target galaxy clusters that are part ...

The inset at left shows a close-up of the young dwarf galaxy. This image is a composite taken with Hubble's WFC 3 and ACS. Credit: NASA, ESA, and M. Postman and D. Coe (STScI) and CLASH Team.

Farthest known object in the Universe is 13.3 billion years old

by Tibi Puiu

November 20, 2012

The inset at left shows a close-up of the young dwarf galaxy. This image is a ...

Quasars “snack” regularly, instead of “feasting in one gulp”

by Tibi Puiu

June 20, 2012

[caption id="attachment_13290" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Artist's rendering of ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a ...

Glow harbors first objects in the universe. infrared imaged by Spitzer Space Telescope

Ethereal glow might harbor the Universe’s first objects

by Tibi Puiu

June 11, 2012

First discovered in 2005, and then studied in more depth since 2007, NASA scientists have finally isolated the ethereal glow ...

Combined visible and infrared images of the Sombrero Galaxy. Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (University of Arizona), and the SINGS Team Visible: Hubble Space Telescope/Hubble Heritage Team

The Sombrero Galaxy is actually made up of two galaxies in one, infrared survey finds

by Tibi Puiu

April 26, 2012

[caption id="attachment_12683" align="alignnone" width="512" caption="Combined visible and infrared images of the Sombrero Galaxy. Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Kennicutt (University of Arizona), and ...

A spectrum from the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observator superim. (c) NASA, C.R. O'Dell, S.K. Wong (Rice University) posed on an image of the Orion nebula.

Stars spew out organic matter into space – life may have its origin in star dust

by Tibi Puiu

October 27, 2011

[caption id="attachment_9567" align="alignnone" width="500" caption="A spectrum from the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observator superim, on top of the Orion ...