NASA. The Spitzer telescope, used by the American space agency to explore the vast universe, has completed 16 years of existence, and on this occasion a series of astonishing images were published. The images published by NASA to celebrate the telescope's 16th anniversary show distant galaxies, impressive stars, and various other formations that have been discovered in some of the far corners of the universe.
NASA. The Spitzer telescope was launched in August 2003 by the Americans in a mission that was initially thought to have a duration of only 5 years, but because everything worked so well, it was extended. Spitzer is in an orbit around the Sun, just like Earth, but it moves much slower, and is 150 million kilometers behind Earth, moving away every day, NASA having trouble communicating with he.
GODMOTHER. AMAZING PHOTO Celebrates 16 years of the Spitzer Telescope
NASA. At the moment, the Americans can communicate with the ship that has the telescope for only a few hours each day, and this duration is getting shorter and shorter with each passing day. NASA has already taken the decision to completely disable the telescope from January 30, 2020, and is going to replace it with another one, James Webb, which is going to be sent into space and assembled there by the space agency to analyze the entire universe even better.
NASA. As you can see from these images, we are talking about incredible moments captured by the Spitzer telescope so far, and until January it will certainly record other spectacular ones. Everything we see now is made with 16-year-old technologies, so you can imagine what NASA will show with the latest generation telescope that it is preparing to launch into outer space next year.
NASA. Having said that, it will be very interesting to see what NASA will publish in the coming months from Spitzer, but also what we will see after the new telescope becomes functional in outer space.
