Episodes
Giant jets from baby stars blow colorful bubbles in interstellar space. Spitzer's infrared view reveals these structures in colorful ways never seen before.
Published 04/15/08
IRrelevant Astronomy takes a lighthearted, comedic look at the infrared Universe. Enjoy this peek at the Spitzer Space Telescope's newest video podcast series.
Published 04/04/08
One of the most striking nearby star-forming regions is the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud. New images from Spitzer reveal its infrared wonders.
Published 02/13/08
These two extreme planets have set the records for the hottest and windiest known worlds anywhere.
Published 12/22/07
Galaxies take on striking new colors and structures when viewed by the infrared eye of the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Published 11/30/07
For Halloween, a trilogy of spooky star-forming regions tell a haunting tale of the lives and deaths of stars.
Published 10/30/07
The star Mira has kept a stunning secret that scientists have only just discovered in the glow of ultraviolet light.
Published 10/02/07
The eerie Helix nebula, created from the outer layers of a dying star once like our own, reveals secrets to the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Published 09/05/07
The beautiful Carina nebula, stretching 200 light years across space, has been shredded by ultraviolet radiation and winds from a behemoth of a star.
Published 07/20/07
What makes the Earth livable? In this animated cartoon, innocent alien M51 moves the Earth into a closer orbit around the sun, and learns an important lesson about life in the Universe.
Published 06/28/07
The fantastic structures at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, hidden from us in visible light, are revealed through infrared imagery.
Published 05/30/07
In Greek Mythology, the Princess Andromeda was sacrificed to appease a sea monster's appetite. But astronomers are learning that the Andromeda Galaxy is less the spiral beauty and more the voracious beast.
Published 05/14/07
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way, is revealed in exquisite detail in this video from the Spitzer Space Telescope.
Published 05/02/07
They're known as the Pillars of Creation, but according to recent Spitzer observations these ghostly apparitions have already met their own destruction!
Published 01/30/07
Astronomers peering deeply into the cosmos think they have found something remarkable... the light from the first objects to form after the universe was born!
Published 12/18/06
It's as clear as day and night... but on an exotic alien world! Astronomers have for the first time measured the temperatures varying across the surface of a planet beyond our solar system.
Published 10/12/06
New images of the Orion Nebula show thousands of nascent solar systems.
Published 08/14/06
M82 has been called an exploding galaxy, and three of NASA's Great Observatories have teamed up to show it like it's never been seen before.
Published 06/16/06
Like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, astronomers have found that a whole new solar system may be forming in the wake of a star's violent death.
Published 05/02/06