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WISE Telescope, Launching Friday, Will Scope Out Universe's Darkest Objects
WISEcourtesy NASAThe wide-field telescope is intended to create a catalog of interesting items for Spitzer, Hubble, and company to inspect more closely If the weather holds, NASA's newest space...
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WISE Infrared Telescope Opens Eyes, Snaps Its First Starry Image
WISE Snaps its First ImageNASAThere's art and then there's science, but every now and then the two cross paths spectacularly. NASA's newest celestial shutterbug popped its lens cap today and captured...
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NASA's WISE Telescope Completes First Survey of the Entire Sky, Returning...
Heart and Soul Located about 6,000 light-years from Earth, the Heart and Soul nebulae in the constellation Cassiopeia form a vast star-forming complex that makes up part of an arm of the Milky Way...
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What's On Tap For the Next Ten Years of Astronomy? Find Exo-Earths and Figure...
ALMA SunriseALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)Survey of scientists compiles astronomical wishlist for the next decade The future of astronomy is an amped-up search for exoplanets and for a greater understanding of...
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In a Grand Romantic Gesture, WISE Telescope Captures a Cosmic Flower in the...
The Rosette Nebula in Constellation Monoceros, or the UnicornNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLABy any other name, this deep space pic of the Rosette nebula is still beautiful. By snapping images at four different...
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As the WISE Infrared Survey Warms Up to a New Role, We Look At Its Successes
The Scorpion's ClawLocated right in the claw of the constellation Scorpius, nebula DG 129 looks pretty unremarkable in the visible spectrum. But at infrared wavelengths bright light from nearby stars...
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WISE Captures Runaway Star Sending a Shockwave Through the Cosmos
Zeta Ophiuchi, Star on the RunNASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLAAfter losing a fellow star, its longtime companion, a star 20 times more massive than our sun is tearing through space on a cosmic bender, leaving a...
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How Powerful New Telescopes Are Helping Us Spot More Asteroids, Maybe Just In...
NASA is watching closer than ever as another space rock gives Earth a close shave. Soon, we'll get even closer as a new spacecraft visits an asteroid. A giant space rock is hurtling toward Earth eight...
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Conscientious Galaxy Uses All Its Fuel To Make New Stars, Leaving No Waste...
Ultra-High-Efficiency GalaxyIn a galaxy called SDSSJ1506+54, nearly all of the gas has been driven to the central core of the galaxy and ignited into stars. This is a composite of images from the...
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WISE Telescope, Launching Friday, Will Scope Out Universe's Darkest Objects
If the weather holds, NASA's newest space telescope will lift off Friday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on a mission to map the cosmos.The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer, or...
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WISE Infrared Telescope Opens Eyes, Snaps Its First Starry Image
WISE Snaps its First Image NASA There's art and then there's science, but every now and then the two cross paths spectacularly. NASA's newest celestial shutterbug popped its lens cap today and...
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NASA's WISE Telescope Completes First Survey of the Entire Sky, Returning...
Heart and Soul Located about 6,000 light-years from Earth, the Heart and Soul nebulae in the constellation Cassiopeia form a vast star-forming complex that makes up part of an arm of the Milky Way...
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What's On Tap For the Next Ten Years of Astronomy? Find Exo-Earths and Figure...
ALMA Sunrise ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) The future of astronomy is an amped-up search for exoplanets and for a greater understanding of how the universe formed and evolved, according to a sweeping survey...
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In a Grand Romantic Gesture, WISE Telescope Captures a Cosmic Flower in the...
The Rosette Nebula in Constellation Monoceros, or the Unicorn NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA By any other name, this deep space pic of the Rosette nebula is still beautiful. By snapping images at four...
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WISE's Greatest Hits
As the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer ends the first phase of its mission, we revisit some of the stunning shots it gathered while surveying the entire sky The Seagull NebulaThis mosaic of WISE...
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As the WISE Infrared Survey Warms Up to a New Role, We Look At Its Successes
The Scorpion's Claw Located right in the claw of the constellation Scorpius, nebula DG 129 looks pretty unremarkable in the visible spectrum. But at infrared wavelengths bright light from nearby stars...
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WISE Captures Runaway Star Sending a Shockwave Through the Cosmos
Zeta Ophiuchi, Star on the Run NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA After losing a fellow star, its longtime companion, a star 20 times more massive than our sun is tearing through space on a cosmic bender, leaving...
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How Powerful New Telescopes Are Helping Us Spot More Asteroids, Maybe Just In...
Asteroids Seen By WISE The rectangles with red dots indicate near-Earth asteroids as seen by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. NASA A giant space rock is hurtling toward Earth eight times...
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Conscientious Galaxy Uses All Its Fuel To Make New Stars, Leaving No Waste...
Ultra-High-Efficiency Galaxy In a galaxy called SDSSJ1506+54, nearly all of the gas has been driven to the central core of the galaxy and ignited into stars. This is a composite of images from the...
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If the weather holds, NASA's newest space telescope will lift off Friday morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, on a mission to map the cosmos. The Wide-Field…
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