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Spitzer Space Telescope
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decommissioned NASA infrared space observatory
The Spitzer Space Telescope was a NASA observatory that orbited in space and observed the universe using infrared light, allowing it to see things that visible light telescopes cannot. It has now been decommissioned, meaning it is no longer in operation, but during its time in service it made important contributions to our understanding of space and celestial objects.
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Official website
Spitzer Space Telescope - NASA Science
Spitzer uses an ultra-sensitive infrared telescope to study asteroids, comets, planets and distant galaxies.
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Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Great Observatories program
- Named after
- Lyman Spitzer
- Country of origin
- United States
- Follows
- Chandra X-ray Observatory
- Parent body
- Sun
- Diameter
- 2.1
- Mass
- 15.6
- Orbital period
- 373.12
- Manufacturer
- Goddard Space Flight Center
- Official website
- solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/spitzer-space-telescope
- Image
- Spitzer space telescope.jpg
- Length
- 4.45
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- Commons category
- Spitzer Space Telescope
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2003-08-25
- space launch vehicle
- Delta II
- topic's main category
- Category:Spitzer Space Telescope
- type of orbit
- heliocentric orbit
- focal length
- 10.2
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.011323
- periapsis
- 1.0028
- apoapsis
- 1.0258
- orbital inclination
- 1.1338
- service retirement
- 2020-01-30
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 1.0143
- argument of periapsis
- 195.80
- mean anomaly
- 212.72
- service entry
- 2003-12-18
- aperture
- 0.85
- powered by
- photovoltaic system
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
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Encyclopedic overview
NASA Great Observatories
Infrared observations can see objects hidden in visible light, such as HUDF-JD2, shown. This shows how the Spitzer IRAC camera was able to see beyond the wavelengths of Hubble's instruments.
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