WISE
WISE sees “First Light”
by EAAE Webteam on Jan.07, 2010, under WISE
Source: NASA/WISE Mission
Eight-second exposure of a region in the constellation Carina near the Milky Way shows infrared light from three of WISE’s four wavelength bands: Blue, green and red correspond to 3.4, 4.6, and 12 microns, respectively.
Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured its first look at the starry sky that it will soon begin surveying in infrared light.(read more)
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