Spitzer, launched on August 25, 2003, was the last of the four “Great Telescopes” group to be launched by NASA. The other three included the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990; the Compton Gamma Ray ...
Astronomers have detected a natural sugar found in raspberries in clouds of interstellar dust and gas near the center of the ...
Dr. Giovanni Fazio, from the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory discusses the Spitzer Space Telescope. Launched on 25 August 2003, the telescope is producing an exciting new view of the Universe ...
Understanding the evolution of galaxies is one of the biggest questions confronting astronomers today. Looking at distant astronomical objects gives scientists important clues to the origins of the ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled an awe-inspiring celestial spectacle of a spiral galaxy interacting with a plume of dust and gas from a newborn star. NASA said in a statement it was "a ...
Click to open image viewer. This 1/10th scale model of the Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, was manufactured by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
The center of our Milky Way galaxy is even more breathtaking when seen as a composite made of data from three space-based instruments sensitive to different wavelengths. NASA / CXC / UMass / D. Wand ...