SIRTF "Aliveness Test" Image

Sept. 3, 2003

This engineering image derives from 100 seconds of observing time on one of the three science instruments aboard the Space InfraRed Telescope Facility (SIRTF) (now known as the Spitzer Space Telescope).

For a full-resolution, annotated version of this image, please select Figure 1, below:

Photojournal note: The Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF) telescope was renamed the Spitzer Space Telescope on December 18, 2003, after the late Dr. Lyman Spitzer, in a contest which was open to the general public.

SIRTF "Aliveness Test" Image

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