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The Spitzer Space Telescope, launched in 2003, was equipped

to observe in the infrared, at wavelengths of 3 to 180 micrometers

(3,000 to 180,000 nanometers).

The liquid helium that it carried, to cool its cryogenic detectors, was

exhausted sometime in 2009, so the band of wavelengths is probably

less now.

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