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Austin American-StatesmanHow 'green' are you?Austin American-StatesmanSparkles said she was inspired to design the 'System Dress' after seeing an IMAX movie about NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. taunton press Sparkles' book, ...
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Bright Side of News*Astronomers Hope to Launch Telescope ProjectsBright Side of News*The WISE telescope has a 40 cm diameter in an all aluminum optical system that produces images of the sky with 2.75 arcsec resolution in four infrared ...
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Latino ReviewNatalie Portman May Go To 'Gravity'Latino ReviewThe story centers on the lone survivor of a space mission to repair the Hubble telescope desperately tries to return to Earth and reunite with her daughter. ...and more »
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Colorful Mix of Asteroids Discovered, May Aid Future Space TravelScience Daily (press release)7, 2010) — New research from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope reveals that asteroids somewhat near Earth, termed near-Earth objects, are a mixed bunch, ...and more »
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FOXNewsImpressively-Diverse NEO Found Around EarthSoftpediaThe Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope, one of NASA's newest, has already been conducting all-sky, infrared surveys, which also allowed it ...Spitzer telescope reveals that asteroids vary widely in composition, originIsland Crisis (blog)Spitzer finds a flavourful mix of asteroidsScience CentricNear Earth Asteroids Vary Widely in Composition, OriginUniverse Todayall 30 news articles »
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VizWorld.comWISE Captures the Unicorn's RoseVizWorld.comThis cluster can be seen through a small telescope. This is an image captured from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) telescope. ...
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Space.comNew Cosmic Photo Reveals Eye-Catching Rosette NebulaSpace.comThe new image is just one tiny piece of the massive sky atlas WISE telescope is assembling. The satellite, launched in December 2009, is scanning the entire ...
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WISE Images the Rosette NebulaSoftpediaA team of experts from the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announces that the WISE telescope has recently snapped a new, ...WISE Captures The Unicorn's RoseSpace Dailyall 11 news articles »
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Mother Nature NetworkNew $1.6 billion telescope will take understanding of space to new levelsMother Nature NetworkThis image shows NASA's 40 cm diameter Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, telescope. ...and more »
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Telegraph.co.ukWhat's Ahead for Astronomy in the Next Decade?Discovery NewsThe high-priority missions include a space telescope called WFIRST, or the Wide-Field InfraRed Survey Telescope. This mission would cover two of the key ...'Swiss-army knife' telescope tops astronomers' wish listChem.Infoall 73 news articles »
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My favorite telescope! I Hope it finds all those browndwarfs! In December of 2009, NASA launched its latest infrared telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. This satellite, also known as WISE, is on a mission to map the entire sky in infrared light.
Thousands of new space objects revealed. Using the new Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), scientists from the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have been able to detect never-before-observed objects such as stars, asteroids, dust clouds, comets and even a new galaxy. The first full scan of the night-time sky identified over 25000 new asteroids, 15 new comets and hundreds of possible brown dwarfs. Meanwhile, a team led by British astrophysics professor Paul Crowther using NASA's Hubble Telescope and the European Southern Observatory's extra large telescope has found the biggest ever known star. At a weight of more than 320 times the mass and 10 million times the luminosity of the Sun, astronomers are calling this a once in a lifetime discovery. The researchers hope that their many new extraterrestrial discoveries will help answer questions about how planets, stars and galaxies are formed. Our accolades, US and European scientists for these amazing new discoveries in the vast outer reaches of space. May we cherish the many gifts of our own planetary home as we continue to learn more about the magnificent creations of the universe.
Please join us on Facebook for the latest science news and videos: tinyurl.com Calacademy: WISE Surveys the Skies. NASA's WISE mission has just completed its first survey of the entire sky. --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com --- WISE is a NASA-funded Explorer mission that will provide a vast storehouse of knowledge about the solar system, the Milky Way, and the Universe. Among the objects WISE will study are asteroids, the coolest and dimmest stars, and the most luminous galaxies. WISE is an unmanned satellite carrying an infrared-sensitive telescope that will image the entire sky. Since objects around room temperature emit infrared radiation, the WISE telescope and detectors are kept very cold (below -430° F /15 Kelvins, which is only 15° Centigrade above absolute zero) by a cryostat -- like an ice chest but filled with solid hydrogen instead of ice. Solar panels will provide WISE with the electricity it needs to operate, and will always point toward the Sun. Orbiting several hundred miles above the dividing line between night and day on Earth, the telescope will look out at right angles to the Sun and will always point away from Earth. As WISE orbits from the North pole to the equator to the South pole and then back up to the North pole, the telescope will sweep out a circle in the sky. As the Earth moves around the Sun, this circle will move around the sky, and after six months WISE will ...
Called WISE for Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, the telescope completes its first full scan of the sky on Saturday and then begins another round of imaging. What's special about WISE is its ability to see through impenetrable veils of dust, picking up the heat glow of objects that are invisible to regular telescopes. So far, WISE has discovered 25000 never-before-seen asteroids. Of those, 95 are considered "near-Earth" asteroids. credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/WISE source: www.jpl.nasa.gov
a video about a supposed nibiru near the sun. At this point in time no one is certain of the mysterious heavenly body yet. This video is not meant to be proof, just speculations. Look at the space between the cloud on the right and the sun on the left! Something materialized and looks to me like the WING DISK planet NIBIRU!!!
In December of 2009, NASA launched its latest infrared telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. This satellite, also known as WISE, is on a mission to map the entire sky in infrared light.
Spectacular infrared photograghs from space. The Wise Sky and Many Views of the Milky Way Edit.
On the morning of December 14th, 2009, NASA launched its latest infrared telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. This satellite, also known as WISE, is on a mission to map the entire sky in infrared light. Its four detectors cover wavelengths from 3 and a half to 22 microns and can see asteroids, comets, stars, and dust clouds. Seen in multiple passes as it scanned across the sky, WISE captured the comet Siding-Spring in motion through the solar system. This image sequence span about 8 hours, showing the comet's dramatic, cold dust tail. The star-forming region NGC 3603 glows around the young, bright cluster at its core. The light from these massive stars sculpt out the surrounding environment, producing the dramatic structures we see. Looking beyond the Milky Way we see our neighboring Andromeda Galaxy. At the shorter wavelengths WISE catches the light from stars, while the longer wavelengths reveal dust. Together we get the complete picture of this spiral galaxy and its prominent dust ring. Some galaxies distant are virtually impossible to see in visible light because they fall behind dark dust clouds in our own Milky Way. These two, known as Maffei 1 and 2, are easy marks for WISE, however, since the obscuring dust becomes more transparent in the infrared. The WISE view of the Fornax Cluster shows a population of galaxies about 50 million light years away. Most of them are dust--free ellipticals glowing blue only from the light of their stars. One exception ...
Please join us on Facebook for the latest science news and videos: tinyurl.com The Hidden Universe (Episode 30): The WISE Sky. This is the Hidden Universe of the Spitzer Space Telescope, exploring the mysteries of infrared astronomy with your host Dr. Robert Hurt. On the morning of December 14th, 2009, NASA launched its latest infrared telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com • www.youtube.com --- The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will scan the entire sky in infrared light, picking up the glow of hundreds of millions of objects and producing millions of images. The mission will uncover objects never seen before, including the coolest stars, the universe's most luminous galaxies and some of the darkest near-Earth asteroids and comets. Its vast catalogs will help answer fundamental questions about the origins of planets, stars and galaxies, and provide a feast of data for astronomers to munch on for decades to come. Thanks to next-generation technology, WISE's sensitivity is hundreds of times greater than its predecessor, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, which operated in 1983. WISE will join two other infrared missions in space -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA participation. WISE is different from these missions in that it will survey the entire sky. It ...
On the morning of December 14th, 2009, NASA launched its latest infrared telescope, the Wide field Infrared Survey Explorer. This satellite, also known as WISE, is on a mission to map the entire sky in infrared light. Its four detectors cover wavelengths from 3 and a half to 22 microns and can see asteroids, comets, stars, and dust clouds. Seen in multiple passes as it scanned across the sky, WISE captured the comet Siding Spring in motion through the solar system. This image sequence spans about 8 hours, showing the comets dramatic, cold dust tail. The star forming region NGC 3603 glows around the young, bright cluster at its core. The light from these massive stars sculpt out the surrounding environment, producing the dramatic structures we see. Looking beyond the Milky Way we see our neighbouring Andromeda Galaxy. At the shorter wavelengths WISE catches the light from stars, while the longer wavelengths reveal dust. Together we get the complete picture of this spiral galaxy and its prominent dust ring. Some galaxies distant are virtually impossible to see in visible light because they fall behind dark dust clouds in our own Milky Way. These two, known as Maffei 1 and 2, are easy marks for WISE, however, since the obscuring dust becomes more transparent in the infrared. The WISE view of the Fornax Cluster shows a population of galaxies about 50 million light years away. Most of them are dust free ellipticals glowing blue only from the light of their stars. One exception ...
On the morning of December 14th, NASA launched its latest infrared telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.
Please join us on Facebook for the latest science news and videos: tinyurl.com First Pictures From WISE Spacecraft - The NASA/JPL Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer. --- Please subscribe to Science & Reason: • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com --- The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will scan the entire sky in infrared light, picking up the glow of hundreds of millions of objects and producing millions of images. The mission will uncover objects never seen before, including the coolest stars, the universe's most luminous galaxies and some of the darkest near-Earth asteroids and comets. Its vast catalogs will help answer fundamental questions about the origins of planets, stars and galaxies, and provide a feast of data for astronomers to munch on for decades to come. Thanks to next-generation technology, WISE's sensitivity is hundreds of times greater than its predecessor, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, which operated in 1983. WISE will join two other infrared missions in space -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA participation. WISE is different from these missions in that it will survey the entire sky. It is designed to cast a wide net to catch all sorts of unseen cosmic treasures, including rare oddities. The closest of WISE's finds will be near-Earth objects, both asteroids and comets, with orbits that come close to crossing Earth's path. The mission is expected to ...
Date- 17th Feb 10 Source- www.jpl.nasa.gov 'Treat yourself to some of the first images from NASA's recently launched Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope.'
In which Angus talks a little about space exploration with the WISE telescope, how doing poorly on my Chinese quiz today was John's fault, and a very Douglas Adams surprise. Starlight Books is an excellent store, by the way.
Source: wise.ssl.berkeley.edu Go behind the scenes to see how the Delta II rocket and the WISE space telescope are prepared for launch on this exciting mission to view space through infrared eyes.
Treat yourself to some of the first images from NASA's recently launched Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope. Related release: A diverse cast of cosmic characters is showcased in the first survey images NASA released Wednesday from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Since WISE began its scan of the entire sky in infrared light on Jan. 14, the space telescope has beamed back more than a quarter of a million raw, infrared images. Four new, processed pictures illustrate a sampling of the mission's targets -- a wispy comet, a bursting star-forming cloud, the grand Andromeda galaxy and a faraway cluster of hundreds of galaxies. The images are online at www.jpl.nasa.gov "WISE has worked superbly," said Ed Weiler, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "These first images are proving the spacecraft's secondary mission of helping to track asteroids, comets and other stellar objects will be just as critically important as its primary mission of surveying the entire sky in infrared." One image shows the beauty of a comet called Siding Spring. As the comet parades toward the sun, it sheds dust that glows in infrared light visible to WISE. The comet's tail, which stretches about 10 million miles, looks like a streak of red paint. A bright star appears below it in blue. "We've got a candy store of images coming down from space," said Edward (Ned) Wright of UCLA, the principal investigator for WISE ...
A diverse cast of cosmic characters is showcased in the first survey images NASA released Wednesday from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE. Since WISE began its scan of the entire sky in infrared light on Jan. 14, the space telescope has beamed back more than a quarter of a million raw, infrared images. Four new, processed pictures illustrate a sampling of the mission's targets -- a wispy comet, a bursting star-forming cloud, the grand Andromeda galaxy and a faraway cluster of hundreds of galaxies. The images are online at www.jpl.nasa.gov "WISE has worked superbly," said Ed Weiler, associate administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "These first images are proving the spacecraft's secondary mission of helping to track asteroids, comets and other stellar objects will be just as critically important as its primary mission of surveying the entire sky in infrared." One image shows the beauty of a comet called Siding Spring. As the comet parades toward the sun, it sheds dust that glows in infrared light visible to WISE. The comet's tail, which stretches about 10 million miles, looks like a streak of red paint. A bright star appears below it in blue. "We've got a candy store of images coming down from space," said Edward (Ned) Wright of UCLA, the principal investigator for WISE. "Everyone has their favorite flavors, and we've got them all." During its survey, the mission is expected to find perhaps dozens of comets ...
Treat yourself to some of the first images from NASA's recently launched Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer space telescope. NASA's WISE showcases brand new images, including a wispy comet and the grand Andromeda galaxy.
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A near-Earth asteroid is discovered is, Spirit is renewed, and the next space shuttle mission is almost ready to go. Just some of what youll see on TW@N! For more info: www.nasa.gov/ntv
The WISE spacecraft is readied for its mission to scan space with a specialized infrared telescope. If arecognizable person appears in this video, use for commercial purposes may infringe a right of privacy or publicity. It may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by NASA employees of a commercial product, process or service, or used in any other manner that might mislead. Accordingly, it is requested that if this video is used in advertising and other commercial promotion, layout and copy be submitted to NASA prior to release.
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light. A Delta II rocket carrying the spacecraft launched at 9:09 am EST from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The rocket deposited WISE into a polar orbit 326 miles above Earth about 55 minutes later. Video courtesy NASA TV. www.spaceflightnews.net
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — NASAs Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the entire sky in infrared light. A Delta II rocket carrying the spacecraft launched at 6:09 am PST (9:09 am EST) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The rocket deposited WISE into a polar orbit 326 miles above Earth. WISE thundered overhead, lighting up the pre-dawn skies, said William Irace, the missions project manager at NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. All systems are looking good, and we are on our way to seeing the entire infrared sky better than ever before. Engineers acquired a signal from the spacecraft via NASAs Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System just 10 seconds after the spacecraft separated from the rocket. Approximately three minutes later, WISE re-oriented itself with its solar panels facing the sun to generate its own power. The next major event occurred about 17 minutes later. Valves on the cryostat, a chamber of super-cold hydrogen ice that cools the WISE instrument, opened. Because the instrument sees the infrared, or heat, signatures of objects, it must be kept at chilly temperatures. Its coldest detectors are less than minus 447 degrees Fahrenheit. WISE needs to be colder than the objects its observing, said Ned Wright of UCLA, the missions principal investigator. Now were ready to see the infrared glow from hundreds of thousands of asteroids, and hundreds of ...
NASA launches new infrared telescope to scan the cosmos for undiscovered objects.
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A WISE Mission to study Asteroids, Comets and other Objects. The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, will scan the entire sky in infrared light, picking up the glow of hundreds of millions of objects and producing millions of images. --- • www.YouTube.com • www.YouTube.com --- The WISE mission will uncover objects never seen before, including the coolest stars, the universe's most luminous galaxies and some of the darkest near-Earth asteroids and comets. Its vast catalogs will help answer fundamental questions about the origins of planets, stars and galaxies, and provide a feast of data for astronomers to munch on for decades to come. Thanks to next-generation technology, WISE's sensitivity is hundreds of times greater than its predecessor, the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, which operated in 1983. WISE will join two other infrared missions in space - NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and the Herschel Space Observatory, a European Space Agency mission with important NASA participation. WISE is different from these missions in that it will survey the entire sky. It is designed to cast a wide net to catch all sorts of unseen cosmic treasures, including rare oddities. The closest of WISE's finds will be near-Earth objects, both asteroids and comets, with orbits that come close to crossing Earth's path. The mission is expected to find hundreds of these bodies, and hundreds of thousands of additional asteroids in our solar system's main asteroid belt. By measuring the ...
Date- 10th Dec 09 Source- www.nasa.gov 'Go behind the scenes to see how the Delta II rocket and the WISE space telescope are prepared for launch on this exciting mission to view space through infrared eyes.'
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) will scan our section of the universe with it's very sensitive IR telescope looking for a glow ommitted from the millions of objects near to Earth and thousands of light years away. spacelaunchnews.com Lift-off of a United Launch Alliance Delta II-7320 rocket has been rescheduled for Saturday, December 11th at 9 am EST, from Vandenberg, AFB in California. The launch window is 14 minutes.
After launch, WISE will scan the entire sky in infrared light with a sensitivity hundreds of times greater than ever before, picking up the glow of hundreds of millions of objects and producing millions of images. The mission will uncover objects never seen before, including the coolest stars, the universe's most luminous galaxies and some of the darkest near-Earth asteroids and comets. www.nasa.gov
After launch, WISE will scan the entire sky in infrared light with a sensitivity hundreds of times greater than ever before, picking up the glow of hundreds of millions of objects and producing millions of images. The mission will uncover objects never seen before, including the coolest stars, the universe's most luminous galaxies and some of the darkest near-Earth asteroids and comets. www.nasa.gov
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer will provide a map to the universe's hidden treasures. The infrared telescope will uncover hidden cosmic creatures, including the coolest stars, dark asteroids and the most luminous galaxies. Credit: NASA/JPL Even the darkest of the dark objects in space wont be able to hide from WISE In the history of mankind, common sense has always told us that if you wish to be sneaky, you must make yourself .... To read more about this video, and view other media, please visit one of our blogs listed below: hubpages.com weekendspacereview.wordpress.com weekendspace.blogspot.com weekendspace.xanga.com weekendspacereview.ning.com
The Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a NASA-funded Explorer mission that will provide a vast storehouse of knowledge about the solar system, the Milky Way, and the Universe. Among the objects WISE will study are asteroids, the coolest and dimmest stars, and the most luminous galaxies. WISE is an unmanned satellite carrying an infrared-sensitive telescope that will image the entire sky. Since objects around room temperature emit infrared radiation, the WISE telescope and detectors are kept very cold (below -430° F /15 Kelvins, which is only 15° Centigrade above absolute zero) by a cryostat -- like an ice chest but filled with solid hydrogen instead of ice. Solar panels will provide WISE with the electricity it needs to operate, and will always point toward the Sun. Orbiting several hundred miles above the dividing line between night and day on Earth, the telescope will look out at right angles to the Sun and will always point away from Earth. As WISE orbits from the North pole to the equator to the South pole and then back up to the North pole, the telescope will sweep out a circle in the sky. As the Earth moves around the Sun, this circle will move around the sky, and after six months WISE will have observed the whole sky. As WISE sweeps along the circle a small mirror scans in the opposite direction, capturing an image of the sky onto an infrared sensitive digital camera which will take a picture every 11 seconds. Each picture will cover an area of the sky 3 ...
NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer will provide a map to the universe's hidden treasures. The infrared telescope will uncover hidden cosmic creatures, including the coolest stars, dark asteroids and the most luminous galaxies.
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