for you space heads...The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer at IPAC

doctorie · Mar 18, 2012

NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission began mapping the sky in 2010, but after collecting more than 15 trillion bytes of data it took more than a little time to process the information. That task complete, NASA has now released a new atlas and catalog covering the more than half a billion celestial objects mapped by the project â€” some of which were captured for the very first time. Over 2.7 million images taken at four infrared wavelengths of light were collected for the project, which were then condensed down to the 80,000 images available in the new atlas. Even prior to the release of the new imagery, the WISE mission yielded insights, offering the first glimpses of a class of failed stars known as Y-dwarfs, as well as aiding in the discovery of an asteroid that shares the same orbital path as Earth itself. A collection of standout images are available for viewing on the WISE website, and if you'd like to take in the entire atlas itself, you can find it here
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http://wise2.ipac.caltech.edu/docs/release/allsky/

doctorie · Mar 18, 2012

this might interest you also

http://montage.ipac.caltech.edu/gallery.html

Sogetsu · Mar 18, 2012

If only we could go out there.

SamHamwich · Mar 19, 2012

Proves our pathetic existence at least lol

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