Come and see how we can tell what the climate is like on extrasolar planets and where new planets may be forming. The Spitzer Space Telescope is the last of the Great Observatories and after five and a half years of probing the universe in the infrared we have gained great new insight about a wide range of topics from planets orbiting around other stars, to the birthplace of new stars, to black holes in the distant universe.
More from BIL 2009
- "Material Social Change" How a fabric company is transforming lives in local communities globally — Eve Blossom
- 10 Lessons I Learned from Starting Companies in a Downturn — Francine Hardaway
- 15 minutes with an evil genius — Whurley
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More on Science & Space
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- A New Volumetric Eye: Light Field Microscopy — Todd Anderson
- An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything — Garrett Lisi
- Anti-Aging Bioscience Research — Aubrey de Grey ▶ video