WISE
Dust in the Wind
[/caption] The stellar wind, that is! This beautiful image, taken by NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Explorer (WISE) shows a vast ring…
Runaway Star Creates Quite a Shock
[/caption] Faster than a speeding bullet, this supergiant star looks like it might be wearing a red cape. Alpha Camelopardalis,…
Gallery: WISE’s Greatest Hits
[/caption] The WISE mission is now over, with the spacecraft taking its final image on Feb. 1, 2011. WISE was…
Mission Complete: NEOWISE Concludes Hunt for Near-Earth Objects
[/caption] The WISE spacecraft has completed a special mission called NEOWISE, looking for small bodies in the solar system, and…
The Real News about Ophiuchus: There’s a Runaway Star Plowing Through It
Lots of folks seem to be up in arms about the "new" sign in the zodiac, Ophiuchus, and the news…
WISE Captures an Infrared Shock Wave
[/caption] From a JPL press release: A circular rainbow appears like a halo around an exploded star in this new…
WISE Captures a Glowing Cylinder in Space
[/caption] It’s not like we’ve never seen the planetary nebula NGC 1514 before, but we’ve never seen it though WISE’s…
WISE Cryostat is Depleting
[/caption] NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, is losing its cool. The spacecraft is running out of the frozen…
WISE Mission Completes All-sky Infrared Survey
[/caption] If you take a lot of digital pictures, you're probably familiar with the frustration of keeping track of dozens…
WISE Pictures the Tadpole Nebula with a String of Pearls
[/caption] The Tadpole nebula is looking very stylish in this new infrared image from the WISE spacecraft, NASA's Wide-field Infrared…