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SIRTF

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SIRTFSpace Infrared Telescope Facility (now Spitzer Space Telescope; NASA)


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Dr Michael Jura, SIRTF interdisciplinary scientist for planetary science at the University of California at Los Angeles, said: "One of the main scientific goals of SIRTF, I think, is to develop a much better understanding of how stars and planets form.
One of the keys to success is cooling the telescope to near absolute zero, or around 460 degrees below zero, so the infrared telescope can peer into distant places in the universe without interference from the heat of a near-Earth environment, said Michael Werner, SIRTF project manager at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Had ESA waited for SIRTF, the Europeans might have been out of luck, Pryke says.
 
 
 
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