Find us on: Home Images Video & Audio News Explore The Mission Partner links will open in a new window 20 • 40 • 100 per page Details or Icons Page 1 of 5 Go to page partner089 11.06.14 NASA Rocket Experiment: Universe is Brighter Than We Thought A NASA sounding rocket experiment has detected a surprising surplus of infrared light in the dark space between galax... read more partner88 06.23.14 Organic conundrum in Large Magellanic Cloud A group of organic chemicals that are considered carcinogens and pollutants today on Earth, but are also thought to b... read more partner087 04.10.14 G352.7-0.1: Supernova Cleans Up its Surroundings Supernovas are the spectacular ends to the lives of many massive stars. These explosions can produce enormous amounts... read more partner086 01.06.14 Pulsar in a Stellar Triple System Makes Unique Gravitational Laboratory Astronomers using a number of telescopes, including Spitzer, have discovered a unique stellar system of two white dwa... read more partner085 10.23.13 Texas Astronomer Discovers Most Distant Known Galaxy University of Texas at Austin astronomer Steven Finkelstein has led a team that has discovered and measured the dista... read more partner084 07.18.13 Seeing Snow in Space Although it might seem counterintuitive, if you get far enough away from a smoldering young star, you can actually fi... read more partner083 06.05.13 NASA Chandra, Spitzer Study Suggests Black Holes Abundant Among The Earliest Stars By comparing infrared and X-ray background signals across the same stretch of sky, an international team of astronome... read more partner082 05.14.13 NASA Develops Key to Cosmic Carbon's Molecular Evolution Scientists at NASA's Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., now have the capability to systematically investiga... read more partner081 01.10.13 Mapping the Milky Way: Radio Telescopes Give Clues to Structure, History Astronomers have discovered hundreds of previously-unknown sites of massive star formation in the Milky Way by using ... read more partner080 08.29.12 NASA's WISE Survey Uncovers Millions of Black Holes NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has found millions of dusty supermassive black hole candidates spre... read more partner079 04.16.12 1000 Days of Infrared Wonders Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics read more partner078 04.03.12 Cosmic 'Leaf Blower' Robs Galaxy of Star-Making Fuel Supernova explosions and the jets of a monstrous black hole are scattering a galaxy's star-making gas like a cosmic l... read more partner077 03.26.12 A New Release of Infrared Galaxy Data A newly processed collection of infrared observations of more that 200 galaxies, based on data available from NASA's ... read more partner076 12.01.11 Strange New “Species” of Ultra-Red Galaxy Discovered In the distant reaches of the universe, almost 13 billion light-years from Earth, a strange species of galaxy lay hid... read more partner075 11.29.11 The Shape of the Universe: Recent Deep Space Photography The Shape of the Universe is an exhibition of deep space photography, curated by artist David Em. The exhibition fea... read more partner074 05.25.11 The Spitzer Photo Atlas of Galactic "Train Wrecks" Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics read more partner073 08.23.10 Students Travel to California to Learn About Astronomy Great Falls Tribune read more partner072 08.17.10 Best Jobs In Science: NASA Concept Illustrators Turn Raw Data Into Art Popular Science Magazine read more partner071 05.26.10 Astronomers Discover Clue to Origin of Milky Way Gas Clouds A surprising discovery that hydrogen gas clouds found in abundance in and above our Milky Way Galaxy have preferred l... read more partner070 04.14.10 Storage Networking World Honors Caltech as a "Best Practices in Storage" Award Finalist Nexsan announced that the California Institute of Technology has been recognized by Storage Networking World and the ... read more 20 • 40 • 100 per page Details or Icons Page 1 of 5 Go to page Latest Videos March 19 Catching a GLIMPSE of the Milky Way March 19 Panning Through the Milky Way February 12 Fusion vs. Fission August 29 10 Years of Innovation July 8 Ask an Astronomy Brain Parasite Latest Images October 22 Ring of Stellar Fire October 22 Galactic Wheel of Life Shines in Infrared October 15 Sluggish Galaxy Grows Stars Slowly September 24 Seeing Starlight Through a Planet's Rim September 24 A Sunny Outlook for 'Weather' on Exoplanets Feedback • Mailing List • Privacy Policy • Image Use Policy • Credits • Legacy Site The Spitzer Space Telescope is a NASA mission managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This website is maintained by the Spitzer Science Center, located on the campus of the California Institute of Technology and part of NASA's Infrared Processing and Analysis Center.