Data Archives and Tools
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NASA/IPAC Infrared Science Archive (IRSA)
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NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)
+ Spitzer Data Archive
+ MSC Archives
+ NASA/IPAC/MSC Star and Exoplanet
Database (NStED)
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Additional Tools
Science Support Centers
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Spitzer Science Center (SSC)
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Michelson Science Center (MSC)
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NASA Herschel Science Center (NHSC)
Science Research Projects
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Spitzer Wide-area InfraRed Extragalactic
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Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey
(SINGS)
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MIPS Galactic Plane Survey
(MIPSGAL I and II)
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Great Observatory All-sky LIRG Survey
(GOALS)
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Taurus Spitzer Legacy Project
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5 mJy Extragalactic Spectroscopic Survey
Operational Missions
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Spitzer Space Telescope
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Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX)
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Keck Interferometer (KI)
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Palomar Testbed Interferometer (PTI)
Missions in Development
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Herschel
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Planck
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Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE)
Proposed Missions
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SIM PlanetQuest
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Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF)
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Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
Past Missions
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Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
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Infrared Space Observatory (ISO)
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Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE)
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Midcourse Space Experiment (MSX)
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InfraRed Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)
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Top Story
A new image from
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope,
tells a tale of life and death amidst a rich family history. The striking infrared picture shows a colorful cosmic
cloud, called W5, studded with multiple generations of blazing stars.
It also provides dramatic new evidence that massive stars - through their brute winds and radiation -
can trigger the birth of stellar newborns.
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IPAC Legacy Gallery Highlight
The center of our Milky Way Galaxy, hidden by thick dust at visible wavelength,
becomes transparent in the infrared. This 2MASS image, covering a field roughly 10 x 8 degrees (about the area of your fist held out at arm's
length) reveals multitudes of otherwise hidden stars, penetrating all the way to the central star cluster of the Galaxy.
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Education Highlight
Our Sun has been steadily fusing hydrogen into helium for the last 5 billion years, and astronomers predict that it will
continue to do the same thing for another 5 billion years, until it runs out of hydrogen. But what happens then? Does the Sun just turn off?
Learn more by watching the latest video from our award winning Ask an Astronomer series:
+ "What will happen to the Earth when the Sun dies?"
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