Unsettled Youth: A Chaotic Planetary System
During the infancy of our solar system, when our planets had not yet settled down into their orbits, this was a dangerous place to live. The planets w...
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NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is a space-based infrared observatory, part of NASA's Great Observatories program (which also includes Hubble, Chandra, and Compton). These podcasts offer information about the science discoveries, astronomy, and more.
Unsettled Youth: A Chaotic Planetary System
During the infancy of our solar system, when our planets had not yet settled down into their orbits, this was a dangerous place to live. The planets w...
Swirling Clumps of Planetary Material
Something appears to be pushing around a large clump of material that is in orbit of this star, and it's moving fast enough to make a difference in ob...
Trigger Happy Star Formation
From recent discoveries made by two of NASA's Great Observatories comes new insight into how stars are created. Large nebula's scattered all around ou...
Baby Stars Found Jumbled In Galactic Center
At the center of our Milky Way galaxy is an area previously unseen by astronomers. Shrouded by clouds of swirling dusts and gases, before now our astr...
Cool Stars Have Different Mix of Life-Forming Chemicals
It's life, Jim, but not as we know it! Well, at least the building blocks of life. A new study from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope hints that planets ...
Exoplanet with Wild Temperature Swings
Talk about hot flashes! A planet that heats up to extreme temperatures in a matter of hours before quickly cooling back down.
Dim Dwarfs
The new record-holder for dimmest known star-like object in the universe goes to twin brown dwarfs, each of which shines feebly with only one milliont...
Twin Asteroid Belts
The star Epsilon Eridani is even stranger than fiction. NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has shown it has two asteroid belts.
Water Hit with Young Star's Best Shot
Water is being blasted to pieces by a young star's laser-like jets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. The discovery p...