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NASA's WISE Completes Its First Full Sky Survey in Infrared

07/17/2010 03:31PM

NASA's WISE Completes Its First Full Sky Survey in Infrared

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, completed its first survey of the entire sky today, July 17, 2010. The mission has generated more than one million images so far. WISE is filling in the blanks on the infrared properties of everything in the universe from nearby asteroids to distant quasars. In six months, WISE has discovered more than 90 new Near-Earth Objects. The infrared telescope is also good at spotting comets that orbit far from Earth and has discovered more than a dozen of these too. WISE's infrared vision also gives it a unique ability to pick up the glow of cool stars called brown dwarfs.


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