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	Spitzer space telescope - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Unlike most telescopes which are named after famous deceased astronomers by a board of scientists, the name for SIRTF was obtained from a contest open to the general public (to the delight of science educators).
		The first images taken by SST were designed to show off the abilities of the telescope and showed a glowing stellar nursery; a swirling, dusty galaxy; a disc of planet-forming debris; and organic material in the distant universe.
		The telescope was trained on a core of gas of dust known as L1014 which had previously appeared completely dark to ground based observatories and to ISO (Infrared Space Observatory), a predecessor to Spitzer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Spitzer_space_telescope (1288 words)

	Space Observatory Encyclopedia Article, Information, History and Biography @ LaunchBase.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		As a telescope orbits the Earth outside the atmosphere it is subject neither to twinkling (distortion due to thermal turbulences of the air) nor to light pollution from artificial light sources on the Earth.
		MOST was launched in 2003 for the Canadian Space Agency and it is the smallest space telescope in the world, being the size of a small chest or a very large suitcase.
		The James Webb Space Telescope is intended to replace the Hubble Space Telescope and is planned for launch between 2009 and 2011.
	www.launchbase.com /encyclopedia/Space_observatory (843 words)

	Space Today Online - SIRTF - the Space Infrared Telescope Facility
		The Spitzer Space Telescope is orbiting the Sun on a five-year mission to reveal previously hidden, dusty regions of the Universe as well as cold and distant objects.
		Spitzer (SIRTF) is a 3,000-lb., 0.85-meter, cryogenically-cooled, space telescope operating as an unmanned infrared astronomy observatory in a solar orbit far beyond the Earth and the Moon.
		Spitzer has a solar shield and is in an unusual Earth-trailing solar orbit, which places the satellite far enough away from the Earth to allow the telescope to cool without using large amounts of cryogen coolant.
	www.spacetoday.org /DeepSpace/Telescopes/GreatObservatories/SIRTF/SIRTF.html (1768 words)

	SPACE.com -- First Photos from New Spitzer Space Telescope
		Spitzer, as the telescope is sure to be informally known, launched Aug. 25 and spent its first weeks in space undergoing instrument checkout.
		The telescope also discovered water for first time in a galaxy so far away that it is observed at a time when life was just developing on Earth, Spitzer scientists said.
		In 1946, he suggested that space-based telescopes could avoid the blurring effects of Earth's atmosphere and be able to see space in wavelengths of light that don't penetrate the atmosphere.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/spitzer_first_031218.html (1703 words)

	Telescope: Spitzer Space Telescope
		Although telescopes on mountaintops can study certain infrared wavelengths, most infrared radiation is absorbed by the Earth’s atmosphere.
		Spitzer gets a much clearer view of the wavelengths of infrared light that can be studied from the Earth, and makes it possible to examine the infrared wavelengths that are blocked by the Earth’s atmosphere.
		Spitzer is named after the astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer Jr., who was the first to propose putting a telescope in space.
	amazing-space.stsci.edu /resources/explorations/groundup/lesson/scopes/spitzer/index.php?show=true (215 words)

	Ask An Infrared Astronomer: The Spitzer Space Telescope
		The Spitzer Space Telescope is a space-borne infrared telescope designed to study planets, comets, stars, galaxies, and other objects in the Universe.
		The Spitzer Space Telescope was launched on a Delta rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
		Since the Spitzer Space Telescope is measuring weak thermal radiation (heat) from distant objects, it must be refrigerated to reduce the contaminating heat emitted by the telescope itself.
	coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu /cosmic_classroom/ask_astronomer/faq/mission.shtml (812 words)

	About Spitzer
		During its 2.5-year mission, Spitzer will obtain images and spectra by detecting the infrared energy, or heat, radiated by objects in space between wavelengths of 3 and 180 microns (1 micron is one-millionth of a meter).
		Spitzer will be the final mission in NASA's Great Observatories Program - a family of four orbiting observatories, each observing the Universe in a different kind of light (visible, gamma rays, X-rays, and infrared).
		Spitzer is also a part of NASA's Astronomical Search for Origins Program, designed to provide information which will help us understand our cosmic roots, and how galaxies, stars and planets develop and form.
	www.spitzer.caltech.edu /about/index.shtml (462 words)

	PLANET X, NIBIRU, ANCIENT ASTRONAUTS, NASA, MARS, EARTH
		He was one of the 20th century's most influential scientists, and in the mid-1940s, he first proposed placing telescopes in space.
		Spitzer's unprecedented sensitivity allows it to sense infrared radiation, or heat, from the most distant, cold and dust-obscured celestial objects.
		Spitzer's infrared detectors unveiled the brilliant hidden interior of this opaque cloud of gas and dust for the first time, exposing never-before-seen young stars.
	xfacts.com /spitzer_planetx.html (700 words)

	Universe Today - Ingredients of Life 10 Billion Light-Years Away
		NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found the ingredients for life all the way back to a time when the universe was a mere youngster.
		Spitzer's sensitivity is 100 times greater than these previous infrared telescope missions, enabling direct detection of organics so far away.
		Spitzer's infrared spectrograph was built by Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Its development was led by Dr. Jim Houck of Cornell.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/spitzer_finds_polycyclic_aromatic_hydrocarbons.html?2972005 (739 words)

	Spitzer Space Telescope finding
		The last of NASA's Great Observatories, newly named the Spitzer Space Telescope, has found evidence of organic molecules in one of the brightest galaxies ever detected, said James Houck, Cornell professor of astronomy, speaking at a NASA press conference at the space agency's headquarters in Washington, D.C., Dec. 18.
		Spitzer Space Telescope scientists believe the minimum life span for the observatory is about five years, when its liquid helium coolant (at a frigid minus 450 Fahrenheit) is expected to run out.
		The telescope already has faced one challenge: In November, the spectrograph was subjected to a massive proton "storm" in space, with 1.6 billion atomic particles (mostly protons) bombarding a square centimeter of the instrument in just two days.
	www.news.cornell.edu /Chronicle/04/1.15.04/Spitzer_galaxy.html (736 words)

	USATODAY.com - Spitzer Space Telescope makes two discoveries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Spitzer scientists can use the telescope's infrared vision to see through the dust that obscures such regions.
		The yellow is the object; the red is an artifact of the telescope.
		Spitzer Space Telescope scientists were surprised to find this mysterious object in a dark, dusty cloud.
	www.usatoday.com /tech/science/space/2004-11-10-spitzer-surprises_x.htm (479 words)

	NASA - NASA Announces New Name For Space Infrared Telescope Facility
		Spitzer's pioneering efforts to put telescopes in space led to two successful space missions, including the Hubble Space Telescope.
		The telescope was launched August 25, 2003, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. The Spitzer Space Telescope uses state-of-the-art infrared detectors to pierce the dense clouds of gas and dust that enshroud many celestial objects, including distant galaxies; clusters of stars in formation; and planet forming discs surrounding stars.
		Spitzer (1914-1997) was the first to propose, in 1946, placing a large telescope in space to avoid the blurring effects of Earth's atmosphere.
	www.nasa.gov /home/hqnews/2003/dec/HQ_03414_sirtf_new_name.html (509 words)

	Spitzer Space Telescope
		Launched on Aug. 25, 2003, the Spitzer Space Telescope is the final element in NASA's Great Observatories Program and an important scientific and technical cornerstone of the Origins Program.
		It was renamed the Spitzer Space Telescope on Dec. 18, 2003, in honor of the American astrophysicist Lyman Spitzer Jr.
		The Spitzer Telescope carries three instruments in an Earth-trailing, heliocentric orbit on a mission that is estimated to last 2.5 to 5+ years, depending on how long the spacecraft's supply of liquid helium, used to keep the imaging systems
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/S/Spitzer_Space_Telescope.html (262 words)

	NASA's Spitzer space telescope views alien worlds - Wikinews
		Using the Spitzer telescope, the astronomers first collected and measured the total infrared output from both the stars and planets.
		The Spitzer telescope was launched August 25, 2003 and is scheduled to be de-orbited sometime in 2008.
		Spitzer was named for Dr. Lyman Spitzer who, in the mid-1940's, first proposed placing telescopes in space.
	en.wikinews.org /wiki/NASA's_Spitzer_space_telescope_views_alien_worlds (548 words)

	ScienceDaily: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Exposes Dusty Galactic Hideouts
		Stormy Cloud Of Star Birth Glows In New Spitzer Image (January 23, 2004) -- A dusty stellar nursery shines brightly in a new image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility.
		Spitzer Arrives At Scene Of Galactic Collision (September 8, 2004) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has set its infrared sight on a major galactic collision and witnessed not death, but a teeming nest of...
		Spitzer Finds Life Components In Young Universe (August 5, 2005) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found the ingredients for life all the way back to a time when the universe was a mere youngster.
	www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2005/03/050307095334.htm (2042 words)

	Universe Today - New Look for the Milky Way
		With the help of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have conducted the most comprehensive structural analysis of our galaxy and have found tantalizing new evidence that the Milky Way is much different from your ordinary spiral galaxy.
		Using the orbiting infrared telescope, the group of astronomers surveyed some 30 million stars in the plane of the galaxy in an effort to build a detailed portrait of the inner regions of the Milky Way.
		Spitzer's capabilities, however, helped the astronomers cut through obscuring clouds of interstellar dust to gather infrared starlight from tens of millions of stars at the center of the galaxy.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/uw-madison_survey_reveal_new_look_for_milkyway.html?1682005 (701 words)

	SST (Spitzer Space Telescope) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Ball Aerospace is developing the Cryogenic Telescope Assembly (CTA) and two of the three science instruments: the Infrared Spectrograph, to provide the telescope with low and moderate spectral-resolution spectroscopic capabilities; and the Multiband Imaging Photometer, a far-infrared instrument to provide imaging photometry and scan mapping.
		Astronomers will use SST to explore the near- and far-infrared universe, scientifically complementary to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
		The Ball Aerospace-built CTA is the “eyes” of SST – its lightweight telescope and cooling technology allow it to see the faint infrared light produced by cosmic objects.
	www.ballaerospace.com /sirtf.html (445 words)

	Science and Space
		Spitzer Space Telescope(formerly SIRTF, the Space Infrared Telescope Facility) was launched into an innovative Earth-trailing solar orbit.
		Consisting of a 0.85-meter telescope and three cryogenically-cooled science instruments, Spitzer is the largest infrared telescope ever launched into space.
		Also, the telescope must be protected from the heat of the Sun and the infrared radiation put out by the Earth.
	ko-science.motime.com /archive/2004-09 (1373 words)

	Chandra Press Room :: Spitzer Space Telescope Leads NASA's Great Observatories to Uncover Black Holes and Other Hidden ...
		Seven of the objects detected in the Spitzer images may be part of the long-sought population of "missing" supermassive fl holes that powered the bright cores of the earliest active galaxies.
		The Spitzer data, together with new images at shorter (but still infrared) wavelengths from the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory, indicate that the galaxies around these fl holes could be heavily obscured by dust, perhaps more distant than other known dust-obscured galaxies.
		Further Spitzer observations at still longer wavelengths, planned for later this year, should help decide whether these objects are red because they are old, or because they are young and actively forming stars, but enveloped in dust.
	chandra.harvard.edu /press/04_releases/press_060104.html (1417 words)

	Spitzer Space Telescope
		The Spitzer Science Center is the source for information on observation planning, proposal submission, observer support, and data archives and analysis.
		Spitzer is pleased to announce a new mailing list as well as the launch of an XML RSS Feed to always keep you informed about what's going on with Spitzer.
		The Spitzer Space Telescope is a NASA mission managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
	www.spitzer.caltech.edu (316 words)

	SST (Spitzer Space Telescope) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The SST is the fourth and final element in NASA's family of Great Observatories and is forging new frontiers in space exploration.
		Astronomers are using SST to explore the near- and far-infrared universe.
		SST data is complementary to data collected by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.
	www.ballaerospace.com /spitzer.html (502 words)

	SPACE.com -- Spitzer Space Telescope: A Great First Year
		The telescope may help them learn about the evolution of galaxies and fl holes, especially when its images are compared with those from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.
		Spitzer is also able to take multiple images that let scientists see the stars, dust and stellar nurseries inside a galaxy.
		The telescope is likely to last five or six years, double its minimal lifetime, so there are plenty of discoveries to come.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/spitzer_update_040825.html (876 words)

	Spitzer Space Telescope on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Night vision: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope lights up the heart of a dark universe.
		Spitzer Space Telescope Sets Infrared Eyes on Dark Matter.
		HO Agence France Presse 08-10-2004 This false-color image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope 10 August, 2004 shows a dying star (C) surrounded by a cloud of glowing gas and dust.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-S1pitzrS1T1.asp (581 words)

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