Hidden Universe: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

0:00 | Feb 22nd, 2018

One year ago, astronomers announced the discovery that seven roughly Earth-sized worlds orbited around the nearby star TRAPPIST-1. Now a year later, additional data have refined our understanding of t...Show More

0:00 | Aug 17th, 2017

This artist's concept animation shows a brown dwarf with bands of clouds, thought to resemble those seen on Neptune and the other outer planets in the solar system.

0:00 | May 3rd, 2017

May 3rd, 2017 marks the 5,000th day of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope mission. This video gives us a detailed look at six of these days, showing how an automated observatory like Spitzer, which is eff...Show More

0:00 | Aug 26th, 2016

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which launched Aug. 25, 2003, will begin an extended mission—the “Beyond” phase—on Oct. 1, 2016.

0:00 | Mar 20th, 2014

Welcome home! This is our Milky Way galaxy as you’ve never seen it before. Ten years in the making, this is the clearest infrared panorama of our galactic home ever made, courtesy of NASA's Spitzer Sp...Show More

0:00 | Aug 23rd, 2013

On August 25, 2003, NASA launched the Spitzer Space Telescope to reveal secrets of the infrared universe.

0:00 | Aug 7th, 2012

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is an alien world just two-thirds the size of Earth - one of the smallest on record!

0:00 | May 21st, 2012

Over the last half century this Cygnus X has been yielding its secrets to the scrutiny of infrared observations. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has now provided the best view yet of what we now know i...Show More