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Spitzer The $1.4 Billion Space eye shutting down...
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NASA to shut down space telescope
NASA is pulling the plug on one of its great observatories the Spitzer Space Telescope - after 16 years of scanning the universe with infrared eyes. The end comes today, when ground controllers put the aging spacecraft into permanent hibernation. For years, Spitzer peered through dusty clouds at untold stars and galaxies, uncovered a huge, nearly invisible ring around Saturn, and helped discover seven Earth-size planets around a nearby star. Spitzer's last observation was expected Wednesday. Altogether, Spitzer observed 800,000 celestial targets and churned out more than 36 million raw images as part of the $1.4 billion mission. An estimated 4,000 scientists around the world took part in the observations and published nearly 9,000 studies, according to NASA.
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