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5 mJy Extragalactic Spectroscopic Survey
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InfraRed Astronomical Satellite (IRAS)
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Top Stories
The Herschel and
Planck
spacecraft successfully blasted into space at 6:12 a.m. Pacific Time (9:12 a.m. Eastern Time) on May 14
from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana.
The European Space Agency missions, with significant participation from NASA, hitched a ride together on an Ariane 5 rocket,
but now have different journeys before them. Herschel will explore, with unprecedented clarity, the earliest stages of
star and galaxy birth in the universe; it will help answer the question of how our sun and Milky Way galaxy came to be.
Planck will look back to almost the beginning of time itself, gathering new details to help explain how our universe came to be.
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After more than five-and-a-half years of probing the cool cosmos,
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
has run out of the coolant that kept its infrared instruments chilled. The telescope will warm up slightly, yet two of its
infrared detector arrays will still operate successfully. The new, warm mission will continue to unveil the far, cold and dusty universe.
Spitzer entered an inactive state called standby mode at 3:11 p.m. Pacific Time (6:11 p.m. Eastern Time or 22:11 Universal Time),
May 15, as result of running out of its liquid helium coolant. Scientists and engineers will spend the next few weeks recalibrating
the instrument at the warmer temperature, and preparing it to begin science operations.
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Featured Presentation
Where did we come from? Are we alone? Using infrared technology, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
will help answer these questions and more. Infrared telescopes allow us to study celestial
objects too hidden, too distant or too cool for us to see using other means.
These hidden worlds, once revealed, may give us clues to the origins of the universe.
Learn more by viewing
"An Infrared Search for Origins".
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IPAC Legacy Gallery Highlight
The familiar winter sky constellation Orion takes on a spectacular guise in the infrared, as seen in this
false-color image constructed from data collected by
IRAS--the Infrared Astronomical Satellite.
New processing techniques have been used to enhance faint details and remove the instrumental artifacts
seen in earlier IRAS images.
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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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