SPACE NOTES

NASA launches the Spitzer Space Telescope

By ALEX SHEETS/Contributing Writer
Posted 8/30/24

On Aug. 25, 2003, NASA launched the Spitzer Space Telescope. Designed to study the cosmos in infrared, the craft concluded NASA’s Great Observatories Program. Over its 16-year career, ending in …

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