A New Closest Star? - Getting WISE to Brown Dwarfs
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Channel: VideoFromSpace · 2010 · Science & Technology
A new NASA mission may discover dim stars very close to our Sun. Super-cooled detectors in the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer will seek hidden treasures across the entire sky, taking at least 1.5 million images - each 4 megapixels in size.
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