Spitzer Space Telescope has had many scientific accomplishments in its first 5 years, exceeding all expectations. It has provided an unprecedented view of the infrared sky. Some key findings include detecting water vapor and organic molecules in protoplanetary disks, characterizing the atmospheres of exoplanets, and observing some of the most distant galaxies. The telescope is now entering a new "Warm Mission" phase using its remaining cryogenic coolant, and will continue making contributions through at least 2013.

1. Celebrating the Spitzer Space Telescope: 5 Years and Counting! Presented to the American Astronautical Society by Michael Werner Spitzer Project Scientist JPL/Caltech November 19, 2008

2. Not Only the AAS Celebrates Spitzer! Will Ferrell and Spitzer image share the screen in “Stranger than Fiction”

3. Spitzer Hubble Chandra Chandra This composite image of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A demonstrates the power of the Great Observatories

4. Hubble’s famed “Pillars of Creation” emerge from the darkness when observed in the infrared by Spitzer

7. Spitzer – Inside and Out

8. Spitzer Family Portrait Infrared Array Camera, G.G.Fazio, SAO, PI Wide-field (5x5 arcmin) imaging at 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8  m Infrared Spectrograph, J.R.Houck, Cornell, PI. echelle spectrographs at 10-20 and 20-40  m & long-slit spectrographs at 5-15um and 15-40  m, plus Imaging/Photometry at 15  m Multi-band Imaging Photometer, G.Rieke, Arizona, PI Imaging and photometry at 24, 70, 160  m & spectrophotometry at 50-100  m

9. The Infrared Array Revolution: Single Detector/Strip Chart and Spitzer Observations of the Galactic Center in the Near Infrared 1967 Infrared Images: Then and Now 2007

12. Hubble Images of Protoplanetary Disks Around Young Stars….. … .Inform Spitzer’s Identification of Thousands of Potential Solar Systems in Dense Molecular Clouds Q: How Common are Planetary Systems Around Other Stars? A: Very, or Perhaps Very, Very!

14. Spitzer has Found “ The Mountains Of Creation” L. Allen, CfA [GTO]

15. The Mountains Tell Their Tale – Interstellar erosion and star formation propagate through the cloud Young (Solar Mass) Stars are Shown in This Panel Really Young Stars are Shown in This Panel

18. How Spitzer Characterizes Extrasolar Planets –Transits and Eclipses N

20. Thermal pulse predicted for planet in elliptical orbit will demonstrate dynamics of planetary atmosphere Eccentric Orbits Produce Rapid Thermal Variations on Exoplanets

21. What are Exoplanets made of? Hubble and Spitzer are Finding out Spitzer Data on Size vs. Wavelength Indicates Abundant Water Vapor in Planet’s Atmosphere

22. More Exoplanet Molecules NICMOS/HST [left] and Spitzer [right] spectra of transiting exoplanets show structure which reflects molecular composition and thermal structure of the exoplanet atmospheres

23. Exoplanet Pictures!!

24. Steps Toward Distant Galaxies….Images of the Whirlpool Galaxy Visible (Starlight) Infrared (Dustglow) from Spitzer

25. Optical Alone Observations shortward of 1um With Spitzer 4.5um band added Searching for Distant Clusters of Galaxies Identification as true cluster in three dimensions requires redshift/distance determination <z> = 1.24

26. Due to cosmic expansion, emission from distant galaxies shifts into the Spitzer bands

28. Probing the Really Distant Universe with the Great Observatories Here, Spitzer and Hubble have measured a galaxy almost 13 Billion light years away. We see it at an epoch when the Universe was only ~15% of its present size, and ~7% of its current age. Even so, this galaxy and others like it are surprising massive and mature…. Galaxy is not just a faint smudge as seen by Spitzer. What will JWST uncover? Hubble Spitzer

29. Spitzer and Hubble posed a Cosmic Conundrum by finding very massive galaxies in the early Universe….This caught the fancy of Science News and challenges theories of structure formation

34. Spitzer’s Adventures with Gamma Ray Burst 080319B First infrared detection of the afterglow of a gamma ray burst

36. Images of GR080319B – the first “naked-eye” Gamma Ray burst X-ray and UV/Optical [right] images from SWIFT Image from “Pi of the Sky” ground network Magnitude vs. time from Pi of the sky telegram shows naked eye brightness. These observations overlap SWIFT trigger in time. Spectroscopic follow up showed z~1, not at all unusual for Gamma Ray bursts

37. Now you see it, now you don’t! [with Spitzer, that is!] 2.5 days after explosion ~8 days after explosion

38. Let’s go to: http://grb.fuw.edu.pl/pi/index.html To see a movie of this remarkable event

39. SPITZER HUBBLE CHANDRA Circa 1985 Something Else to Celebrate…. FERMI

40. SPITZER HUBBLE CHANDRA Circa 1985 … A Dream Fufilled! FERMI

42. SPITZER HUBBLE CHANDRA GLAST Circa 1985 Something Else to Celebrate…..

43. SPITZER HUBBLE CHANDRA GLAST Circa 1985 … A Dream Fulfilled!

44. Spitzer Studies Exoplanets Water Vapor Found Here Spitzer has now characterized ~20 exoplanets, many more than in our Solar System. These show a wide variety of characteristics, and are still only the tip of the iceberg. Eventually, this work should illuminate our understanding if our own solar system – how it formed, how unique it is, etc. – and even point the way to searches for life on other worlds Exoplanets with and Without Warm Stratospheres