Lifting the Cosmic Veil: A Decade of Highlights from the Spitzer Space Telescope

As the infrared cousin to Hubble, the Spitzer Space Telescope was launched in 2003 to study the cool universe with waves that are invisible to the human eye. It was designed to probe the birth and youth of stars and planetary disks, and to observe some of the most distant objects in the universe. However, Spitzer's ultimate legacy may be in an area completely unanticipated when the mission was originally envisioned-the study of planets orbiting other stars. Dr. Bicay will describe the long and winding road leading to Spitzer's launch, and present highlights from the mission's remarkable first decade of discovery.

Speaker: Michael Bicay, NASA Ames