NASA is pulling the plug on one of its great observatories -- the Spitzer Space Telescope -- after 16 years of scanning the universe with infrared eyes. The end comes Thursday when ground controllers ...

Understanding the evolution of galaxies is one of the biggest questions confronting astronomers today. Looking at distant astronomical objects gives scientists important clues to the origins of the ...

Previous Spitzer studies have indicated the formation of complex molecules in the Helix Nebula.

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