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SPITZER TELESCOPE DISCOVERIES
In 2003, NASA launched a 34-inch infrared telescope called Spitzer. For 17 years, it looked through cosmic dust and revealed a hidden universe- This hellish planet is so hot it has clouds of glass and an atmosphere of vaporized metal
- Stunning NASA images show how the Sun will consume Earth and create new planets one day
- Massive asteroid collision detected by James Webb telescope, impact more than what killed dinosaursA 'cataclysmic' collision happened between two giant asteroids happened recently in one of the Earth's nearby star system, located 63 light...13 Jun, 2024, 11.29 PM IST
- Hubble Space Telescope captures a planet’s atmosphere being stripped away by a starThe Hubble Space Telescope has observed planet AU Mic b, which is located outside of our solar system, being stripped of its hydrogen atmos...01 Aug, 2023, 11.37 AM IST
- Distant star TOI-700 has two potentially habitable planets orbiting it - making it an excellent candidate in the search for lifeWe are two of the astronomers who led the discovery of this planet, called TOI-700 e. TOI-700 e is just over 100 light years from Earth - t...09 Mar, 2023, 11.19 AM IST
- NASA's Spitzer telescope completes 15 yrs in spaceWashington, Aug 26 (IANS) NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, the youngest member of the "Great Observatory" programme, has completed 15 years ...26 Aug, 2018, 02.42 PM IST
- First stars formed 250 million years after Big Bang: StudyFor such a young galaxy, known as MACS1149-JD1, to contain detectable traces of oxygen, it must have begun forging stars even earlier - a s...17 May, 2018, 12.30 PM IST
- First known interstellar asteroid is cigar-shaped 'oddball'Washington, Nov 21 (IANS) An interstellar asteroid that was first found passing through our solar system in mid-October is a cigar-shaped o...21 Nov, 2017, 01.47 PM IST
- Orbital details of TRAPPIST-1's outermost planet confirmedWashington, May 23 (IANS) Using NASA's Kepler space telescope, scientists have confirmed that the outermost and least understood planet in ...23 May, 2017, 11.10 AM IST
- Water signature found in Neptune-sized planet's atmosphereWashington, May 12 (IANS) Combining observations from NASA's Hubble and Spitzer space telescopes, researchers have detected strong water si...12 May, 2017, 11.15 AM IST
- 'Iceball' planet about the same mass as Earth discoveredWashington, April 27 (IANS) Scientists have discovered an "extremely cold" new planet about the same mass as Earth, and the same distance f...27 Apr, 2017, 03.30 PM IST
- Exoplanet discovery brings 'Earth 2.0' closer to realityThe US space agency's Spitzer Space Telescope found the first known system of seven Earth-sized planets around a single star.23 Feb, 2017, 03.05 PM IST
- Newly found planets tidally locked to star, have short orbitsThree of these planets are firmly located in the habitable zone, the area around the parent star where a rocky planet is most likely to hav...23 Feb, 2017, 02.04 PM IST
- NASA's Kepler probe spots youngest exoplanet everThe planet, K2-33b, is slightly larger than Neptune and whips tightly around its star every five days. It is one of the very few newborn pl...21 Jun, 2016, 02.06 PM IST
- Galaxy that spits out 800 new stars every year discoveredThe discovery is the first to show that gigantic galaxies at the centre of massive clusters can grow significantly by feeding off gas stole...11 Sep, 2015, 03.40 PM IST
- Three super-Earths found 21 light years from EarthThe transiting super-Earth has a density similar to the Earth's. It is by far the closest transiting planet known today, researchers said.02 Aug, 2015, 03.06 PM IST
- Saturn's outermost ring much bigger than thoughtThe ring, called the 'Phoebe ring', is believed to contain dust and ice particles ejected from Saturn's outer moon, Phoebe, after micromete...14 Jun, 2015, 01.11 PM IST
- Astronomers discover most distant galaxy everThe exceptionally luminous galaxy, EGS-zs8-1, was originally identified based on its particular colours in images from NASA's Hubble and Sp...06 May, 2015, 01.26 PM IST
- One of the most distant planets discoveredA remote gas planet about 13,000 light-years away has been discovered by scientists using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.15 Apr, 2015, 01.26 PM IST
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