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Recent Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope: A New View of the Infrared Universe

Giovanni G. Fazio

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The Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA’s Great Observatory for infrared exploration, was launched on August 25, 2003, and is returning excellent scientific data. Combining the intrinsic sensitivity obtained with a cooled telescope in space and the imaging and spectroscopic power of modern array detectors, huge gains have been achieved in exploring the infrared universe. This paper describes the Spitzer Space Telescope and its focal-plane instruments and summarizes some of the spectacular images and new scientific results that have been obtained.

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The Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA’s Great Observatory for infrared exploration, was launched on August 25, 2003, and is returning excellent scientific data. Combining the intrinsic sensitivity obtained with a cooled telescope in space and the imaging and spectroscopic power of modern array detectors, huge gains have been achieved in exploring the infrared universe. This paper describes the Spitzer Space Telescope and its focal-plane instruments and summarizes some of the spectacular images and new scientific results that have been obtained.

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The Spitzer Space Telescope, NASA’s Great Observatory for infrared exploration, was launched on August 25, 2003, and is returning excellent scientific data. Combining the intrinsic sensitivity obtained with a cooled telescope in space and the imaging and spectroscopic power of modern array detectors, huge gains have been achieved in exploring the infrared universe. This paper describes the Spitzer Space Telescope and its focal-plane instruments and summarizes some of the spectacular images and new scientific results that have been obtained.

Key concepts: Spitzer Space Telescope, Telescope, Physics, Astronomy, Infrared, Space observatory, Observatory, Cardinal point

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