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Published online 30 December 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1330

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Infrared telescope near its end

Spitzer will soon lose coolant and warm up too much to use.

Since rocketing into space five and a half years ago, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has snapped tens of millions of images (see slideshow of Spitzer's greatest hits.

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