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PIA23643: Spitzer Space Telescope (Illustration)
In this artist's rendering of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in space, the background is shown in infrared light.
 Mission:  Spitzer Space Telescope 
 Instrument:  Spitzer Space Telescope 
 Product Size:  5760 x 3240 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  California Institute of Technology 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23643.tif (50.38 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23643.jpg (1.553 MB)  

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In this artist's rendering of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope in space, the background is shown in infrared light.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Spitzer Space Telescope mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. Science operations are conducted at the Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology, also in Pasadena. Caltech manages JPL for NASA.

More information on Spitzer can be found here:

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:
2020-01-22