Articles tagged "Spitzer Space Telescope"

Spitzer space telescope observations reveal unusual infant binary star

February 10, 2013

NASA's Spitzer space telescope observed a rare phenomenon - an infant binary star behind a dense disk and envelope of dust 950 light-years away from Earth flashes at regular intervals. NASA report published on February 7, 2013 says such phenomenon has been observed

Spitzer improves measurement of Universe's expansion rate

October 04, 2012

NASA's Spitzer space telescope's latest achievement is most precise measurement of universe's expansion rate, also known as Hubble constant. As per JPL's press release, it improves by a factor of 3 on a similar, seminal study from the Hubble telescope and brings the

Spitzer telescope finds evidence for an exoplanet smaller than Earth

July 18, 2012

Astronomers using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope have detected what they believe is a planet two-thirds the size of Earth. The exoplanet candidate, called UCF-1.01, is located a mere 33 light-years away, making it possibly the nearest world to our solar system that is

Brown dwarfs discovered?

March 13, 2011

Kevin Luhman of Pennsylvania State University in University Park and colleagues have used NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope to detect the glow of what appears to be a brown dwarf at just 30 °C (Astrophysical Journal Letters, DOI:

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