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Video: Phoenix LandedOriginal at YouTube
• Mon, May 26
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By rss@youtube.com (petebkr) Early view from the Phoenix lander. An approximate-color image of the vast plains of the northern polar region of Mars taken by the spacecraft's Surface Stereo Imager, inferred from two color filters, a violet, 450-nanometer filter and an infrared, 750-nanometer filter. Image credit:...
Multi-Planet System is Chaotic, Dusty
Original at Universe Today
• Wed, Nov 4
By Nancy Atkinson NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope captured this infrared image of a giant halo of very fine dust around the young star HR 8799. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Ariz. © nancy for Universe Today, 2009. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us
Unusual shape of exploded star puzzles scientists
Original at PhysOrg.com
• Wed, Jun 17
VA Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/S. Park and J. Lee); Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech Penn State astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to produce a new image of a ghostly exploded star with an unusual shape in a galaxy near the Milky Way. ...
WISE Mission Assembled and Preparing For Launch - Space Ref
Original at Space Ref
• Wed, Jun 10
press release) spacecraft was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. Science operations and data processing will take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
Baby Stars Finally Found in Jumbled Galactic Center
Original at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Wed, Jun 10
The Money Times CA Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech PASADENA, Calif. -- Astronomers have at last uncovered newborn stars at the frenzied center of our Milky Way galaxy. The discovery was made using the infrared vision of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. ...
Cantronic Systems Inc. Default Announcement Pursuant to National ... - Market Wire
Original at WM Experts
• Mon, Jun 1
Market Wire (press release) Cantronic, through its US subsidiary QWIP Technologies, Inc. ("QWIPTECH"), holds a worldwide, exclusive license from the California Institute of Technology ("Caltech") to produce and sell infrared detectors and sensors based on Caltech's Quantum Well ...
Space Dynamics Laboratory Ships Science Instrument To Chart The Skies - Science Daily
Original at Science Daily
• Wed, May 20
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by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. Science operations and data processing will take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer Coming Together
Original at Space Daily
• Tue, May 19
CA by Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. Science operations and data processing will take place at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.
Herschel and Planck on Way to Study Our Cosmic Roots
Original at Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Thu, May 14
CA The NASA Herschel Science Center, part of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, supports the United States astronomical community. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. More information is online at ...
Spitzer and NGC 6240
Original at Tom's Astronomy
• Tue, Mar 17
By Tom Spitzer and Hubble team up to view the galactic collision that is NGC 6240. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/STScI-ESA This image was created from combined data from the infrared array camera of NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope at 3.6 and 8.0 microns (red) and visible light from NASA’s Hubble Spac...
Kepler's Year
Original at Seed Magazine
• Tue, Dec 30
The Pleiades star cluster, captured here in infrared by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Click on image to view slideshow. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/J. Stauffer (SSC/Caltech). IYA2009 In the UK, the Society for Popular Astronomy, Royal Astronomical Society and Science and Technology Faci...
NGC 346 - A Busy Place
Original at Tom's Astronomy
• Wed, Oct 8
By Tom This painterly portrait of a star-forming cloud, called NGC 346, is a combination of multiwavelength light from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope (infrared), the European Southern Observatory’s New Technology Telescope (visible), and the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton space t...
Spitzer and W5
Original at Tom's Astronomy
• Sat, Aug 23
By Tom This is a three-color composite showing infrared observations from two Spitzer instruments. Blue represents 3.6-micron light and green shows light of 8 microns, both captured by Spitzer’s infrared array camera. Red is 24-micron light detected by Spitzer’s multiband imaging photomet...