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WISE: Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer
Mar 14, 2012 – NASA Releases New Wise Mission Catalog of Entire Infrared Sky NASA unveiled a new atlas and catalog of the entire infrared sky today showing more than a half billion stars, galaxies and other objects captured by the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission. Visit Mar 14, 2012 – WISE All-Sky Data Release The WISE mission has released data to the public from its all sky survey in the form of an image atlas, single exposure images, and a catalog of some half-billion objects detected in the survey. You can view these data at the NASA Infrared Processing and Analysis Center: VisitWISE - Multimedia Gallery: Images
Some stunning images of deep space taken from WISE. On each gallery image’s individual page, look on the left-hand sidebar for links to download it in ultra-high-res. (Via Mike Rundle.)
WISE will survey the entire sky in a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum called the mid- infrared with far greater sensitivity than any previous mission or program ever has. The WISE survey will consist of over a million images, from which hundreds of millions of astronomical objects will be catalogued, providing a vast storehouse of knowledge about the Solar System, the Milky Way, and the Universe. Within our Solar System, asteroids absorb most of the sunlight that hits them and heat up to glow in the mid-infrared. WISE will be able to measure the diameters of more than 100,000 asteroids.
