Showing posts with label NASA's Spitzer Sees the Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared Eyes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASA's Spitzer Sees the Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared Eyes. Show all posts

Friday, August 7, 2009

NASA's Spitzer Sees the Cosmos Through 'Warm' Infrared Eyes

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is starting a second career and taking its first shots of the cosmos since warming up. The infrared telescope ran out of coolant May 15, 2009, more than five-and-a-half-years after launch. It has since warmed to a still-frosty 30 degrees Kelvin (about minus 406 degrees Fahrenheit). New images taken with two of Spitzer's infrared detector channels -- two that work