Spitzer Beyond

NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, which launched Aug. 25, 2003, will begin an extended mission—the “Beyond” phase—on Oct. 1, 2016.

This mission was designed to last at least two-and-a-half years;
13 years later, Spitzer has operated far beyond the scope of the original mission.

Spitzer’s infrared vision has revealed the Universe in new ways, from mapping extrasolar planet temperatures, to discovering a ring around Saturn hundreds of times larger than any previously known.
Spitzer has also discovered tiny buckyball molecules in space, and produced a 360-degree infrared panorama of the Milky Way.

[galaxia]

Thanks NASA for all the great videos you make!!

[KCarver]

Rad. Always liked the spitzer videos.

[thomasfholland]

Spitzer is a perfect examlpe of what NASA is capable of doing.

[himanologanor]

good thing you`re keeping this under 2 minutes, which is already 2 times longer than the max attention span of an american

[beflap]

"visualization scientist" = new life goal

[jorgefilho]

Am I?
Not me.
I am 71, from CMRJ. Class 1977.
I prefer this.

[twonumber]

What will be Webbs first order of business?

[NicosMind]

Well one thing is for sure. Lagging that far away from Earth, aint no one going to be able to claim interference from Earth is polluting their images. But I wonder why they never thought to put it at a Lagrange point? Or is it at L4? Im guessing not cause they would probably have said.

[nixternixter]

Look! Some person accidentally hit the thumbs down button!

[artman]

Would a spacecraft like this survive solar conjunction?