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and you watching and you have all those

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emotions and the rocket goes along on

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this journey and a deploys spitzer the

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spitzer space telescope is a member of

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Spitzer is the infrared member of this

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family Spitzer has unveiled the infrared

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universe it has enabled humans to see

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what our eyes could not see we see a

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whole new side to the universe that's

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hidden from us normally you can peer

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inside of clouds so dust to see the baby

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stars called proto stars being born yet

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let us see into more distant galaxies

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and see how the patterns of dust tell us

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about the motions of gas and the

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dynamics of gravity that operate in

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these objects all of a sudden we could

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create these vast panoramas at

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incredibly sharp resolutions that we'd

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never been able to do before

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and as a result everything that was

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familiar in the sky every nebula we're

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used to seeing in visible light images

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from the ground things from the Hubble

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they became completely different when

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seen through the infrared ices Spitzer

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it was this combination of a scientific

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insight that itself was just stunningly

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the biggest surprise in terms of what

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was revealed with Spitzer is its ability

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to characterize exoplanets of planets

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around other stars most notably we

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identified a system called Trappist one

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which has seven earth sized planets sort

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of snuggling up to what's a very cool

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star and of those planets three of them

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at least are in the habitable zone when

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spitzer launched exoplanet science was

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absolutely not part of the science

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portfolio we were offering for spitzer

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because it wasn't considered to be

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sensitive enough to do that kind of

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observations but while in flight

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astronomers became clever about how they

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could use that engineers became very

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clever about how we could repurpose

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Spitzer and exoplanet Sciences actually

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become one of the core science projects

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of Spitzer since then the Google Doodle

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that day which was trafficed one is what

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kind of finished me off on a glorious

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day when your adult children point out

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that you know my mom works on that

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telescope you know that's that's very

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rewarding Spitzer Space Telescope it's a

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technological marvel I never had any

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conception that we'd be going for 16

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years it's a little machine that could

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go beyond its primary design the

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longevity of the mission is a direct

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result of the engineers and scientists

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and people that have supported them

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in a place that dares mighty things you

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can do it together

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and so when you have that kind of Union

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I think what happens is magic I'm hoping

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Spitzer will be remembered as in a

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really amazing scientific gift and that

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it allowed us to kind of transform our

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understanding of some very important

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aspects of astronomy and I think Spitzer

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has been integral to all that we have a

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huge archive that is waiting to be mined

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and it's it's revelations already have

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been tremendous and revolutionary that

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only time will tell what is Spitzer's