WISE

Beautiful Cosmic Barbeque Pit

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE has been a busy spacecraft since its launch on Dec. 14, 2009. It…

14 years ago

Astronomical Eye Candy from WISE First Images

[/caption] The WISE (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) mission isn't wasting any time in making observations and releasing images. Already the…

14 years ago

WISE Spies Its First Comet

[/caption] The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer or WISE is living up to expectations, as it now has discovered its first…

14 years ago

WISE Bags its First Near-Earth Asteroid

[/caption] Well, that didn't take long: The WISE spacecraft (Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer) spotted its first near-Earth asteroid on January…

14 years ago

WISE “First Light” Image Released

Caption: WISE First Light image. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA "In many respects, the most important moment for a telescope is its…

14 years ago

WISE Launches to Begin All-Sky Survey (Video)

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, successfully lifted off this morning on its way to map the entire sky…

14 years ago

NASA to Launch WISE on Friday

NASA is getting WISE to the Universe this Friday. That is, they're launching the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, a new…

14 years ago