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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
LAist

NASA's Spitzer Telescope Revealed Colors Unseeable By The Human Eye. It Retires Next Week

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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 ...
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 ...
Reading Eagle

Farewell to NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Its 16 Years of Discovery

On Thursday, NASA’s Spitzer space telescope signed off and went silent. But even during its final week of operation, the spacecraft was making one-of-a-kind observations. The telescope, the size of a ...
Digital Trends

Celebrating Spitzer: NASA’s infrared telescope retiring after a 16-year mission

This week, NASA is saying goodbye to one of its most storied and productive telescopes: The Spitzer Space Telescope, launched in 2003 to investigate our universe in the infrared wavelength. As this ...
Yahoo

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

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has a habit of providing us with some downright gorgeous views of deep space, but its latest snapshot might actually be its best yet. The image, which NASA is showcasing ...
Los Angeles Times

‘Bittersweet day.’ NASA says farewell to its Spitzer Space Telescope

After staring past the dusty veils of the cosmos for 16 years, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope will shut its proverbial eyes Thursday after mission officials at Jet Propulsion Laboratory send the ...