NASA's Spitzer telescope warms up to new career
Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 06:21
in Astronomy & Space
The primary mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope is about to end after more than five-and-a-half years of probing the cosmos with its keen infrared eye. Within about a week of 12 May, the telescope is expected to run out of the liquid helium needed to chill some of its instruments to operating temperatures...