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- Spitzer space telescope of NASA retired on January 30, 2020.
- NASA’s Spitzer Mission studied the universe in infrared light for more than 16 years.
- Spitzer Space Telescope was launched in 2003.
- It is the last mission of the NASA Great Observatories program, which saw four specialized telescopes (including the Hubble Space Telescope) launched between 1990 and 2003.
- Using different infrared wavelengths, Spitzer was able to see and reveal features of the universe.
- Spitzer focuses on the infrared band, which normally represents heat radiation from objects.
- NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, set to launch in 2021, will study the universe in many of the same wave-lengths observed by the Spitzer.
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