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SPECTRA

Like rain clouds breaking up visible sunlight to form a rainbow (or spectrum) of colors, Spitzer's Infrared Spectrometer (IRS) breaks infrared light into its wavelengths. Within spectra, astronomers can study features which are the fingerprints of atoms and molecules.

HD 172555
2009/08/10

2009/06/10

EX Lupi
2009/05/13

GD 16
2009/04/20

2009/04/07

HD 80606b
2009/01/28

GD 40
2009/01/05

AA Tauri
2008/03/13

AS 205N
2008/03/13

NGC 3621
2008/01/10

Cassiopeia A
2007/12/20

3C 326
2007/10/22

PG2112+059
2007/10/09

NGC 1333-IRAS 4B
2007/08/29

HD 189733b
2007/07/11

HD 209458b
2007/02/21

HD 209458b
2007/02/21

HD 189733b
2007/02/21

4U 0142+61
2006/04/05

IRAS 08572+3915
2006/02/15

R66
2006/02/08

G29-38
2006/01/11

IRS 46
2005/12/20

Brown dwarfs
2005/10/20

Tempel 1
2005/09/07

Hyperluminous galaxy
2005/07/28

HD 69830
2005/04/20

Hyperluminous galaxy
2005/03/01

CRBR 2422.8-3423
2004/11/09

Protoplanetary Disk
2004/05/27

HH 46/47
2003/12/18

IRAS F00183-7111
2003/12/18

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