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Title: Top 10 Really Cool Infrared Images from Spitzer
Post by: sam on April 17, 2012, 12:10

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The Spitzer Space Telescope’s Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) is a cool camera, no matter what temperature in which it operates! For 1,000 days now, the camera has been continuously taking images of the Universe – from its most distant regions to our local solar neighborhood. The IRAC is now operating in a “warm” version of its mission, as after more than five-and-a-half years of probing the cool cosmos, in 2009 it ran out of liquid helium coolant that kept its infrared instruments chilled.

http://www.universetoday.com/94608/top-10-really-cool-infrared-images-from-spitzer/

Title: Re: Top 10 Really Cool Infrared Images from Spitzer
Post by: Clive on April 17, 2012, 13:40

Spitzer has been a huge success story - as have all the other infra-red orbiting telescopes.  The prettiest pictures are always in the infra-red.   :laugh:

Title: Re: Top 10 Really Cool Infrared Images from Spitzer
Post by: Simon on April 17, 2012, 22:53

That's brilliant!  :woot: