Friday, May 23, 2008

Spitzer Space Telescope

(1024x768 Wallpaper of artist's conception of Spitzer in space)

The 0.85-meter infrered facility was luanched on 25 August, 2003 to probe deeper into the dimmer, cooler and denser regions otherwise not observable by optical telescope. Spitzer is the last of the NASA Great Observatories .

Source
: Images from Spitzer

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