Spitzer Space Telescope

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The Spitzer Space Telescope, formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), is an infrared space telescope operating from 2003-2020. The fourth of NASA's five Great Observatories, It was the third spacecraft dedicated to infrared astronomy, following IRAS (1983) and ISO (1995–98).

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