Thursday, 29 August 2019

Celebrating Spitzer's Sweet Sixteen


Spitzer Space Telescope into orbit around the Sun on Aug. 25, 2003. Since then, the observatory has been lifting the veil on the wonders of the cosmos, from our own solar system to faraway galaxies, using infrared light. via NASA https://ift.tt/2NF8CMW
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