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Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

The Student News Site of Northern Illinois University

Northern Star

NASA shutting down space telescope, infrared eyes to cosmos

By MARCIA DUNN | January 29, 2020

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA is pulling the plug on one of its great observatories -- the Spitzer Space Telescope -- after 16 years of scanning the universe with infrared eyes.The end comes Thursday when ground controllers put the aging spacecraft...

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