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The Spitzer Photo Atlas of Galactic “Train Wrecks”

Five billion years from now, our Milky Way galaxy will collide with the Andromeda galaxy. This will mark a moment of both destruction and creation. The galaxies will lose their separate identities as they merge into one. At the same time, cosmic clouds of gas and dust will smash together, triggering the birth of new stars.

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Top 10 gallery celebrates the Infrared Array Camera aboard the Spitzer Space Telescope

For the last 1,000 days the Infrared Array Camera, aboard NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, has been operating continuously to probe the universe from its most distant regions to our local solar neighborhood.

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12 spectacular images from NASA's Spitzer telescope

The Spitzer Space Telescope is so sensitive it can see objects optical telescopes cannot. Here are some incredible images it has helped capture.




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Eliot Spitzer and the Price-Placebo Effect

In Eliot Spitzer's sex scandal and tragicomic downfall, the question that bugged many people did not have to do with ethics or politics, but whether Spitzer got a raw deal.




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Ergebnisse von 240 operierten Lupusfällen nebst Bemerkungen zur modernen Lupusbehandlung / von Ludwig Spitzer und Alfred Jungmann.

Wien : SafÏar, 1905.




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NASA's Spitzer telescope snaps one last spectacular view of the Tarantula Nebula

The high-resolution image of the star-forming region - named for its spidery filaments of gas - is made up of data from several observations by the telescope.




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NASA turns off its Spitzer space telescope after 16 years of service

After more than 16 years studying the universe in infrared light since its launch in 2003, NASA has switched off the Spitzer Space Telescope, bringing its mission to an end.