Hidden Universe: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Podcast
1) Homes Away From Home? Revisiting the Seven Planets of TRAPPIST-1
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
2) Brown Dwarf Weather Annotated
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.
3) 5000 Days in the Life of an Astronomy Robot
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
4) Spitzer Beyond
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which launched Aug. 25, 2003, will begin an extended missionâthe âBeyondâ phaseâon Oct. 1, 2016.
5) Catching a GLIMPSE of the Milky Way
Welcome home! This is our Milky Way galaxy as youâve 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
6) 10 Years of Innovation
On August 25, 2003, NASA launched the Spitzer Space Telescope to reveal secrets of the infrared universe.
7) Possible Nearby Exoplanet Smaller than Earth (Update)
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!
8) Cygnus X Marks the Spot (Gallery Explorer)
Over the last half century this Cygnus X has been yielding its secrets to the scrutiny of infrared observations. NASAâs Spitzer Space Telescope has now provided the best view yet of what we now know i...Show More
9) The Galactic Center Revisited (Gallery Explorer)
Hiding behind the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius is the center of our own Milky Way galaxy, over 25,000 light years away. This patch of sky is mostly dark in visible light, shrouded by dust c...Show More
10) The North America Nebula (Gallery Explorer)
Seen here in visible light, the North America Nebula strangely resembles its namesake continent. Expanding our view to include infrared light, the dark dust lanes and concealed stars glow in red color...Show More