http://www.metafilter.com/tags/LymanSpitzerJr Posts tagged with 'LymanSpitzerJr' at MetaFilter. Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:33:46 -0800 Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:33:46 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/30337/Spitzer%2DSpace%2DTelescope <a href="http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2003-06/visuals.shtml">The first images</a> from the <a href=http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/>Spitzer Space Telescope</a>, formerly known as the Space Infrared Telescope Facility and renamed after astrophysicist <a href=http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/about/spitzer.shtml>Lyman Spitzer, Jr.</a>, were released on Thursday. Launched on August 25, it obtains images by detecting the <a href=http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/science/whyir/index.shtml>infrared energy</a> radiated by objects in space, and it will <a href=http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/about/orbit.shtml>drift behind the Earth</a> as the planet orbits the sun. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.30337 Sat, 20 Dec 2003 00:33:46 -0800 astronomy astrophysics CalTech LymanSpitzerJr photography science space Spitzer technology telescope homunculus