Spacewatch: Nasa ends 16-year Spitzer infrared mission
by Stuart Clark from Science | The Guardian on (#4Z0TJ)
Spitzer became first telescope to directly capture light from planets in orbit around other stars
Nasa has ended science operations on its Spitzer infrared space telescope and placed the instrument into safe mode.
The mission officially ended at 2230 GMT on 30 January 2020. Spitzer was one of Nasa's four "great observatories", alongside the Hubble space telescope, the Chandra X-ray observatory and the Compton gamma ray observatory.
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