NEOWISE Thermal Data Reveal Surface Properties of Asteroids
Nearly all asteroids are so far away and so small that the astronomical community only knows them as moving points of light. The rare exceptions…
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NEOWISE Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Releases Fourth Year of Data
NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its fourth year of survey data. Since the mission was restarted in December 2013,…
Large Near-Earth Asteroid Florence to Pass Earth on September 1
Asteroid Florence, a large near-Earth asteroid, will pass safely by Earth on September 1, 2017, at a distance of about 4.4 million miles. The large…
NASA Releases Latest Survey Data from NEOWISE Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft
NASA’s Near-Earth Object Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (NEOWISE) mission has released its third year of survey data, with the spacecraft discovering 97 previously unknown celestial…
NEOWISE Mission Spots One Comet, Maybe Two
NASA’s NEOWISE mission has discovered some celestial objects traveling through our neighborhood, including one on the blurry line between asteroid and comet. An object called…
Astronomers Identify Greenhouse Gases in Comets
Using data from the NEOWISE Space Telescope, astronomers have gained new insights into the dust and production rates for difficult-to-observe gases like carbon dioxide and…
NEOWISE: One Year of Observations Mapped
NASA reviews the past 12 months of NEOWISE discoveries with a short video that shows the progression of the NEOWISE survey in the year after…
NASA’s NEOWISE Spacecraft Views Its First Comet
NASA’s NEOWISE spacecraft has spotted its first comet. Officially named “C/2014 C3 (NEOWISE),” the comet was about 143 million miles (230 million kilometers) from Earth…
