NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope Helps Astronomers Better
Understand How Stars Form
Two discoveries -- the detection of an oddly dim object inside
what was thought to be an empty cloud, and the discovery of icy
planetary building blocks in a system believed to resemble our own
solar system in its infancy -- were presented this week at the
first Spitzer science conference in Pasadena (CA). Since Spitzer
science observations began less than one year ago, the infrared
capabilities of the space observatory have unveiled hundreds of
space objects too dim, cool or distant to be seen with other
telescopes.
Read More
