NASA is pulling the plug on one of its great observatories -- the Spitzer Space Telescope -- after 16 years of scanning the universe with infrared eyes. The end comes Thursday when ground controllers ...
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 ...
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 ...