Geebuz...check out this new telescope

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NASA (news - web sites)'s Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility. Clockwise from lower left, the images show a comet, a swirling, dusty galaxy, a hidden newborn star, and a glowing stellar nursery, demonstrating the power of the telescope's infrared detectors to capture cosmic features never before seen. (AP /NASA)

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&ncid=716&e=9&u=/ap/20031219/ap_on_sc/new_telescope

NASA Unveils New Infrared Telescope

WASHINGTON - NASA (news - web sites) unveiled the first views Thursday from its space infrared telescope, a super-cooled orbiting observatory that can look through obscuring dust to capture images never before seen.
Some of the first views from the Spitzer included:


_a galaxy that was mostly blurred in the view of other telescopes. In the Spitzer image, there are vast fields of stars in a spiral necklace surrounding the galaxy. The image also detects clouds of glowing carbon dust.


_a patch of sky that appears black and empty in visible light telescopes is revealed by the Spitzer to be a stellar nursery, a large cloud of dust wherein stars and other bodies are forming,


"That's what the solar system looked like in the beginning," said Fazio.

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[Dudley_DUright]

1. Often the view is must clearer in the IR

since visible light is scattered by dust in the galactic disk. This scope should be a great compliment to the Hubble. Glad to see it is working well.

On edit: Here is a direct link to the Spitzer Space Telescope website

http://sirtf.caltech.edu/

[Kamika]

2. thats pretty :)

Sometimes I wish I'd get the chance to spend anight or so with the hubble telescope :)

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3. Quote

Roy Batty: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.

___Blade Runner___