NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, designed to study the early universe in infrared light, was the first telescope to see light from a planet outside our solar system. Launched in 2003, Spitzer contained infrared detectors of unprecedented sensitivity, providing astronomers a never-before-possible look at the universe.
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David Trilling, professor in Northern Arizona University’s Department of Astronomy and Planetary Science, is the lead author of “Spitzer’s Solar System studies of asteroids, planets and the zodiacal cloud,” co-authored by NAU associate professor Joshua Emery. Both scientists co-authored “Spitzer’s Solar System studies of comets, centaurs and Kuiper belt objects.”
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