SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE

Tune in July 7 at 8 pm ET to explore the legacy of the Spitzer Space Telescope and how it sets the stage for the future. The Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA’s Great Observatory for infrared exploration of the heavens, was retired in January 2020 after a highly successful 16-year career as the premier facility for infrared astronomy from space. Spitzer has studied objects ranging from Near Earth Asteroids to the most distant known galaxies and, more recently, has made major contributions to our understanding of exoplanets – planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. Michael Werner, the Spitzer Project Scientist for over 30 years, will discuss Spitzer’s technical innovations and the scientific advances they enabled. He will share examples of the remarkable images and informative spectra returned by Spitzer and will discuss how Spitzer is setting the stage for future NASA observatories, including the James Webb Space Telescope. Throughout, he will emphasize that projects like Spitzer serve as exemplars of the very best that humanity is capable of. The Exploring Space Lecture Series is made possible by the generous support of Aerojet Rocketdyne and United Launch Alliance.

NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and retired Spitzer Space Telescope have found a young Neptune-size world orbiting AU Microscopii, a cool, nearby M dwarf star surrounded by a vast disk of debris. The discovery makes the system a touchstone for understanding how stars and planets form and evolve. Read more: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2020/nasa-s-tess-spitzer-missions-discover-a-world-orbiting-a-unique-young-star En español: http://ciencia.nasa.gov/las-misiones-tess-y-spitzer-de-la-nasa-descubren-un-planeta-orbitando-una-joven-e-inusual-estrella https://youtu.be/26IY-kjxWW0 Music: "Web Of Intrigue" from Universal Production Music. Video credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Chris Smith (USRA): Lead Producer Chris Smith (USRA): Lead Animator Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park): Science Writer This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13648 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAGoddard Follow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Instagram http://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Twitter http://twitter.com/NASAGoddardPix · Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc

The Spitzer Space Telescope mission ended on January 30, 2020. We take a look back at NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared view of the Universe, and learn why it was decommissioned after 16 years of infrared astronomy. 🔔 Subscribe for more: https://www.youtube.com/christianready?sub_confirmation=1 🖖 Share this video with a fellow space traveler: https://youtu.be/phSZCFMgr7k 🔴 Watch my most recent upload: https://goo.gl/QbRcE2 🚀 Help me improve the channel by joining the community on Patreon https://patreon.com/launchpadastro 🚀 Check out Launch Pad merchandise! https://teespring.com/stores/launchpadastro Disclaimer: Some of these links go to one of my websites and some are affiliate links where I'll earn a small commission if you make a purchase at no additional cost to you. ✅ Let's connect: For business inquiries - chris AT christianready DOT com Twitter - @launchpadastro Instagram - @launchpadastro Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/LaunchPadAstronomy/ Discord - https://discord.gg/yChAuUe 📭 c/o Christian Ready P.O. Box 66 Westminster, MD 21158 United States Earth

After 17 years of amazing infrared discoveries throughout the cosmos, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope mission has come to an end. Join us celebrating the life and legacy of one of NASA's four great observatories. Mission members will discuss the observatory's far-reaching scientific impact and the incredible team that kept the mission going far longer than anticipated. Learn more: SPITZER SPACE TELESCOPE https://www.spacetv.net/spitzer-space-telescope/ SPACE TELESCOPES https://www.spacetv.net/space-telescopes/ HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE https://www.spacetv.net/hubble-space-telescope/ CHANDRA SPACE TELESCOPE https://www.spacetv.net/chandra-space-telescope/ Credits: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

On January 30, 2020, we had to say goodbye to NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope after more thank 16 years of revolutionizing infrared astronomy. Today, SciShow sends it off and says thank you by taking a look back at it’s incredible legacy. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org -- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow -- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters, Ron Kakar -- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow -- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow -- Sources: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ending-in-2020-nasas-infrared-spitzer-mission-leaves-a-gap-in-astronomy/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7580 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/spitzer/quick-facts/ https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/707/2/916 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7036 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/762/1/32/meta, https://youtube.com/watch?v=b3j4wz31gIM https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21360, https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7052 https://youtube.com/watch?v=QeqbD17ESH4 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08515 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2009-150 https://youtube.com/watch?v=syLEQgfi99Q https://books.google.com/books?id=O0L9pnYNnGwC&lpg=PR11&ots=6_rbrpPaTR&dq=Mission%20to%20Saturn%20%20Cassini%20and%20the%20Huygens%20Probe%2C%20Chichester%20%20Praxis%20Publishing%20(2002).&lr&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q=1705&f=false https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4085 http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/5762 http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/651-feature05-17-Spitzer-Highlights-from-Two-Years-in-Space Image Sources: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA23643 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/spitzer/gallery/#videos-1 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/images/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/spitzer-20091007v.html https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/spitzer/gallery/top-images/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/iapetus/in-depth/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA22093 http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/966-ssc2009-19-NASA-Space-Telescope-Discovers-Largest-Ring-Around-Saturn http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/5762 http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/2766-ssc2009-19a-Infrared-Ring-Around-Saturn https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA23644 http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/2763-ssc2009-19c-Artist-s-Rendering-of-Saturn-s-Infrared-Ring https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/spitzer/gallery/ https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21421.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/images/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-visualization-shows-a-black-hole-s-warped-world https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013300/a013326/BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k.mp4 https://www.nasa.gov/content/fermi/overview https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/emspectrum1.html https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA16604 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA23123 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figures/PIA23123_fig1.jpg https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/spitzer/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/wallpaper/PIA04267-1920x1200.jpg http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/2627-sig07-011-The-Spitzer-Space-Telescope-Spectrum http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/video-audio/1440-ssc2014-02v1-Panning-Through-the-Milky-Way http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/info/78-The-Cryogenic-Telescope-Assembly https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Distant_galaxy_GN-z11_in_GOODS-N_image_by_HST.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Cassini.jpg http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/glimpse360/downloads https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jwst_artist_concept_0.png https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2526.html https://www.nasa.gov/jpl/spitzer-turns-12 http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/mission/235-Distant-Galaxies-and-Origins-of-the-Universe https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn_during_Equinox.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13367

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope’s mission concluded on Jan. 30, 2020, at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. After more than 16 years of studying the universe in infrared light, the spacecraft entered a state known as safe mode and ceased science operations. Launched in 2003, Spitzer revealed previously hidden features of known cosmic objects and led to discoveries and insights spanning from our own solar system to nearly the edge of the universe. For more information on the Spitzer Space Telescope, go to https://www.nasa.gov/spitzer NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, conducts mission operations and manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for the agency's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at Caltech in Pasadena. Spacecraft operations are based at Lockheed Martin Space in Littleton, Colorado. Data are archived at the Infrared Science Archive housed at IPAC at Caltech. Caltech manages JPL for NASA. Lockheed Martin in Sunnyvale, California, built the Spitzer spacecraft, and during development served as lead for systems and engineering, and integration and testing. Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corporation in Boulder, Colorado provided the optics, cryogenics and thermal shells and shields for Spitzer. Ball developed the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS) instrument, with science leadership based at Cornell University, and the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer (MIPS) instrument, with science leadership based at the University of Arizona in Tucson. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, developed the Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) instrument, with science leadership based at the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Today at 2:34 pm, we said farewell to the Spitzer Space Telescope mission. Project Scientist Michael Werner and Senior Research Scientist Peter Eisenhardt joined our ASC team mid-January to discuss the incredible mission. All Space Considered is Griffith Observatory’s live science program that is free and open to the public, held the first Friday of every month. Subscribe now for more All Space Considered clips: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=griffithobservatory Watch All Space Considered videos: https://www.youtube.com/griffithobservatory Learn more about All Space Considered on our official site: http://griffithobservatory.org/asc/all_space.html Follow All Space Considered on SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: https://twitter.com/allspacecnsdrd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllSpaceConsidered/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allspaceconsidered/ -Disclaimer- WE DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THE, VIDEOS, MUSICAL MATERIAL OR PICTURES PRESENT THAT WERE NOT CREATED DIRECTLY BY GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY OR ITS AFFILIATES, ALL CREDIT FOR THIS MATERIAL GOES TO THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS, CREATORS AND COMPOSERS. Fair Use: "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

This is the animated storybook tale of the Spitzer spacecraft and its exploits as part of the space telescope superteam known as NASA’s Great Observatories, which also includes Hubble. With its special power to see infrared light, Spitzer revealed a whole side of the universe that had been hidden from our view.

On January 30, 2020, NASA will send the Spitzer Space Telescope its final commands as the mission is coming to a close. But as we say goodbye to Spitzer, let's remember a few of its most incredible moments. Story: Farewell, Spitzer Space Telescope! NASA shuts down prolific observatory: https://www.space.com/spitzer-space-telescope-mission-ends.html Credit: Space.com / produced & edited by Steve Spaleta (http://www.twitter.com/stevespaleta) / Chelsea Gohd (https://twitter.com/chelsea_gohd) / Judi Stroh

Original Air Date: Jan. 23, 2020 The Spitzer Space Telescope has been observing the universe in infrared light for over 16 years. As the mission comes to a close, we’ll take a look at some of the amazing highlights and the lasting legacy of this incredible observatory. Host: Brian White Speaker(s): Varoujan Gorjian, Spitzer Research Scientist, JPL Robert Hurt, Spitzer Visualization Scientist, Caltech/IPAC Suzanne Dodd, Former Spitzer Project Manager (2010-2016), JPL Joseph Hunt, Spitzer Project Manager (Current), JPL

After 16 years of amazing infrared discoveries throughout the cosmos, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope mission is coming to an end. Join us on Jan. 22 at 1 p.m. EST for a live broadcast celebrating the life and legacy of one of our four great observatories. Mission members will discuss the observatory's far-reaching scientific impact and the incredible team that kept the mission going far longer than anticipated.

Michael Werner, the lead scientist for the Spitzer Space Telescope, is a senior research scientist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. Peter Eisenhardt, a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory received NASA's Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal for his work on Spitzer. All Space Considered is Griffith Observatory’s live science program that is free and open to the public, held the first Friday of every month. Subscribe now for more All Space Considered clips: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=griffithobservatory Watch All Space Considered videos: https://www.youtube.com/griffithobservatory Learn more about All Space Considered on our official site: http://griffithobservatory.org/asc/all_space.html Follow All Space Considered on SOCIAL MEDIA: Twitter: https://twitter.com/allspacecnsdrd Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AllSpaceConsidered/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/allspaceconsidered/ -Disclaimer- WE DO NOT OWN THE RIGHTS TO THE, VIDEOS, MUSICAL MATERIAL OR PICTURES PRESENT THAT WERE NOT CREATED DIRECTLY BY GRIFFITH OBSERVATORY OR ITS AFFILIATES, ALL CREDIT FOR THIS MATERIAL GOES TO THE ORIGINAL ARTISTS, CREATORS AND COMPOSERS. Fair Use: "Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use."

After 16 years of unveiling the infrared universe, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has left a singular legacy. As one of NASA’s four Great Observatories -- a series of powerful telescopes including Hubble, Chandra and Compton that can observe the cosmos in different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum --Spitzer quickly became a pioneer in the exploration of the worlds beyond our human vision. From stars being born to planets beyond our solar system (like the seven Earth-size planets around the star TRAPPIST-1), Spitzer's science discoveries will continue to inspire the world for many years to come. For more information about the Spitzer Space Telescope, visit https://nasa.gov/spitzer and http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/

A short motion graphic celebrating Spitzer Final Voyage. For more about Spitzer Final Voyage http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/final-voyage . Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech

Soar through this cosmic landscape filled with bright nebulas, as well as runaway, massive and young stars. The image comes from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which sees the universe in infrared light. For more about Spitzer, visit https://www.nasa.gov/spitzer or http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu . Credit: NASA-JPL/Caltech

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Initially scheduled for a 2.5-year primary mission, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has gone far beyond its expected lifetime -- and is still going strong after 15 years. Mission members reflect on some of Spitzer’s most amazing and surprising discoveries. For more about the mission, visit http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/ and https://www.nasa.gov/spitzer

From newborn stars to black holes to galaxies to planets, Spitzer has been unveiling our galaxy for 15 years! Launched into a solar orbit on Aug. 25, 2003, Spitzer was the final of NASA's four Great Observatories to reach space. The space telescope has illuminated some of the oldest galaxies in the universe, revealed a new ring around Saturn, and peered through shrouds of dust to study newborn stars and black holes. Spitzer assisted in the discovery of planets beyond our solar system, including the detection of seven Earth-size planets orbiting the star TRAPPIST-1, among other accomplishments. Lean more: https://go.nasa.gov/2Mrj1wh

Original air date: Aug. 9 at 7 p.m. PT (10 p.m. ET, 0200 UTC) The Spitzer Space Telescope is one of NASA’s Great Observatories, designed to observe the universe in infrared light. Launched in 2003 with an expected lifetime of five years, Spitzer has succeeded beyond our wildest expectations. This talk will cover engineering feats and technical challenges, as well as recent science highlights. These include science Spitzer was not designed to do, such as the discovery and characterization of seven rocky, potentially habitable planets in the nearby TRAPPIST-1 system. Speaker: Sean Carey, Manager of the Spitzer Science Center, Caltech/IPAC

One year ago, astronomers announced the discovery that seven roughly Earth-sized worlds orbited around the nearby star TRAPPIST-1. Now a year later, additional data have refined our understanding of these planets.We now know more about the TRAPPIST-1 system than any other solar system other than our own.