CBS News

The end of the road for NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, one of the agency's original four "Great Observatories," will execute a final set of commands Thursday, quietly shutting down and putting itself to sleep after more ...
Inverse

NASA's Spitzer telescope will have a dramatically emo send-off

For 16 years, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has trailed Earth’s orbit, sending back remarkable data about distant galaxies and alien worlds. Sadly, the time has come for the telescope to hang up its ...
Science News

As NASA’s Spitzer telescope’s mission ends, here’s a look back at its discoveries

After 16 years and five months in space, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope is signing off. On January 30, engineers will instruct the telescope to power down, bringing an end to one of NASA’s premier ...
Astronomy

NASA is retiring its legendary Spitzer Space Telescope

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope was launched in 2003 on a mission to spend five years exploring the cosmos in infrared light. That means it excels at capturing images and chemical signatures of warm ...
CNET

NASA just shut down the pioneering space telescope Spitzer

Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a multiple award-winning one at that. Earlier, he'd been a scientist, but he realized he wasn't very happy sitting at a lab bench all day. Science writing, ...
Digital Trends

NASA’s Spitzer telescope mission comes to an end after 16 years of investigating space

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has concluded after more than 16 years of exploring the universe in infrared light. NASA/JPL-Caltech After a 16 years of collecting images of our galaxy and beyond, NASA ...
WTSP

As NASA retires Spitzer telescope, a look back at some of its most incredible cosmic images

Its mission was only supposed to last two and a half years, but more than 16 years after launch, NASA's Spitzer telescope has shown us cosmic objects almost to the edge of the universe. Launched in ...
Yahoo

NASA’s Spitzer telescope snaps ‘family portrait’ of epic proportions

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has a habit of providing us with some downright gorgeous views of deep space, but its latest ...
SpaceNews

NASA looking for private organizations to take over Spitzer mission

WASHINGTON — NASA is considering handing over operations of one of its flagship “Great Observatories” to a private organization that would also be responsible for funding the spacecraft. In a request ...
BGR

When NASA Pointed Its Spitzer Telescope At Oumuamua They Couldn't Even See It

If there's one space story that 2018 will be remembered for its the numerous ongoing investigations of the first interstellar object ever to be detected by mankind. Oumuamua, the elongated chunk of ...
SpaceNews

NASA prepares to shut down Spitzer Space Telescope

Artist’s concept of the Spitzer Space Telescope seen against the infrared sky. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt WASHINGTON — NASA will turn off an aging infrared space telescope in a week, citing the ...