The Legacy of the Spitzer Space Telescope | SciShow News
On January 30, 2020, we had to say goodbye to NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope after more thank 16 years of revolutionizing infrared astronomy. Today, SciShow sends it off and says thank you by taking a look back at it’s incredible legacy. Hosted by: Hank Green SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org -- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow -- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters, Ron Kakar -- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow -- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow -- Sources: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ending-in-2020-nasas-infrared-spitzer-mission-leaves-a-gap-in-astronomy/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7580 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/spitzer/quick-facts/ https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/707/2/916 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7036 https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0004-637X/762/1/32/meta, https://youtube.com/watch?v=b3j4wz31gIM https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21360, https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7052 https://youtube.com/watch?v=QeqbD17ESH4 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature08515 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2009-150 https://youtube.com/watch?v=syLEQgfi99Q https://books.google.com/books?id=O0L9pnYNnGwC&lpg=PR11&ots=6_rbrpPaTR&dq=Mission%20to%20Saturn%20%20Cassini%20and%20the%20Huygens%20Probe%2C%20Chichester%20%20Praxis%20Publishing%20(2002).&lr&pg=PA10#v=onepage&q=1705&f=false https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4085 http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/5762 http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/651-feature05-17-Spitzer-Highlights-from-Two-Years-in-Space Image Sources: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA23643 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/spitzer/gallery/#videos-1 https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/images/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/spitzer-20091007v.html https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/spitzer/gallery/top-images/ https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/iapetus/in-depth/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA22093 http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/news/966-ssc2009-19-NASA-Space-Telescope-Discovers-Largest-Ring-Around-Saturn http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/5762 http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/2766-ssc2009-19a-Infrared-Ring-Around-Saturn https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA23644 http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/2763-ssc2009-19c-Artist-s-Rendering-of-Saturn-s-Infrared-Ring https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/spitzer/gallery/ https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia21421.jpg https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/images/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/nasa-visualization-shows-a-black-hole-s-warped-world https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/a013300/a013326/BH_Accretion_Disk_Sim_360_4k.mp4 https://www.nasa.gov/content/fermi/overview https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/emspectrum1.html https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA16604 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA23123 https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figures/PIA23123_fig1.jpg https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/spitzer/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/wallpaper/PIA04267-1920x1200.jpg http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images/2627-sig07-011-The-Spitzer-Space-Telescope-Spectrum http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/video-audio/1440-ssc2014-02v1-Panning-Through-the-Milky-Way http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/info/78-The-Cryogenic-Telescope-Assembly https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Distant_galaxy_GN-z11_in_GOODS-N_image_by_HST.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Giovanni_Cassini.jpg http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/glimpse360/downloads https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/jwst_artist_concept_0.png https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2526.html https://www.nasa.gov/jpl/spitzer-turns-12 http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/mission/235-Distant-Galaxies-and-Origins-of-the-Universe https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saturn_during_Equinox.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13367
