A strange cosmic object nicknamed “The Accident” has given scientists their first glimpse of a…
Browsing: WISE
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) is a NASA infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope launched in December 2009. WISE was designed to map the entire sky in infrared light, capturing images of the most luminous infrared galaxies, stars close to our solar system, and dim objects such as asteroids. The telescope completed its primary mission in 2010, during which it scanned the entire sky approximately 1.5 times and generated millions of images. The data collected by WISE has been instrumental in various astronomical studies, leading to numerous discoveries including brown dwarfs close to the solar system and distant galaxy clusters.
Researchers have utilized infrared survey data to refine the asteroid’s size and surface brightness in…
Pictures of the sky can reveal the grandeur of the cosmos, but movies can bring…
Brown dwarfs aren’t quite stars and aren’t quite planets, and a new study suggests there…
A new website funded by NASA lets the public search for new worlds in the…
Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, astronomers…
Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission, astronomers reveal that the Milky…
Using data from NASA telescopes and other observatories, astronomers reveal the secrets of UGC 1382,…
New data from WISE and its predecessor, the Two Micron All Sky Survey, reveals the…
Using archived NASA data, researchers have discovered “super spiral” galaxies that dwarf the Milky Way…
New research reveals that the distant galaxy W2246-0526 is expelling tremendously turbulent gas (a phenomenon…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers are finding dozens of…
Using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope and Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, a team of astronomers has…
Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers are helping to trace the shape…
NASA’s WISE and Spitzer Space Telescope have discovered the coldest known brown dwarf, which is…
Using data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, astronomers are piecing together the evolution of…
Using data from NASA’s WISE exporter, two newly published studies reveal thousands of new stars,…
NASA’s NEOWISE spacecraft has spotted its first comet. Officially named “C/2014 C3 (NEOWISE),” the comet…