Hidden Universe: NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope   /     5000 Days in the Life of an Astronomy Robot

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May 3rd, 2017 marks the 5,000th day of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope mission. This video gives us a detailed look at six of these days, showing how an automated observatory like Spitzer, which is effectively an astronomy robot, spends its time. It’s overall mission design allows for an unprecedented degree of efficiency, allowing it to study the full range of astronomical phenomena including nearby objects in the solar system, stars in our galaxy, and galaxies out to the edge of the observable universe.

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May 3rd, 2017 marks the 5,000th day of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope mission. This video gives us a detailed look at six of these days, showing how an automated observatory like Spitzer, which is effectively an astronomy robot, spends its time. It’s over
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Publishing date
2017-05-03 00:00
Link
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/video-audio/1662-ssc2017-04v1-5000-Days-in-the-Life-of-an-Astronomy-Robot
Contributors
  NASA's Spitzer Science Center and Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
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http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/uploaded_files/video_files/0011/0767/ssc2017-04v1_360.m4v
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