Science Bulletins: WISE to Scan the Infrared Sky
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Channel: American Museum of Natural History · 2012 · Science & Technology
NASA's latest space telescope-the Wide Field Infrared Explorer, or WISE-recently took its first images of the sky around Earth in infrared light. In its initial six-month mission, WISE will spot thousands of previously unseen space objects, including asteroids and comets, brown dwarfs, and distant ultraluminous galaxies.
