{"id":13311,"date":"2020-01-29T16:49:20","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=13311"},"modified":"2020-01-29T16:49:20","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T11:19:20","slug":"explained-what-is-nasas-spitzer-space-telescope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-nasas-spitzer-space-telescope\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: What is NASA\u2019s Spitzer Space Telescope?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong> Spitzer Space Telescope<strong> <\/strong>will conclude its mission on 30<sup>th<\/sup> January 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Spitzer Space Telescope<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Launched in 2003, it is a space-borne observatory and is part of NASA\u2019s \u201cGreat Observatories\u201d.<\/li><li>&nbsp;It uses an ultra-sensitive infrared telescope to study asteroids, comets, planets and distant galaxies.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Achievements:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>First telescope to detect light from an exoplanet<\/li><li>found a ring of Saturn in 2009<\/li><li>&nbsp;Made the first exoplanet weather map of temperature variations over the surface of a gas exoplanet.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Additional Information<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NASA\u2019s series of Great Observatories satellites:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>They are four large, powerful space-based astronomical telescopes.<\/li><li>The telescopes other than Spitzer Space Telescope are Hubble Space Telescope, Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, and the Chandra X-ray Observatory.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News: Spitzer Space Telescope will conclude its mission on 30th January 2020 Facts: About Spitzer Space Telescope Launched in 2003, it is a space-borne observatory and is part of NASA\u2019s \u201cGreat Observatories\u201d. &nbsp;It uses an ultra-sensitive infrared telescope to study asteroids, comets, planets and distant galaxies. Achievements: First telescope to detect light from an exoplanet&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/explained-what-is-nasas-spitzer-space-telescope\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Explained: What is NASA\u2019s Spitzer Space Telescope?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1738],"tags":[2798],"class_list":["post-13311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology-daily-factly-articles","tag-spitzer-telescope","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704783745},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}