WISE

WISE Finds Few Brown Dwarfs Close to Home

June 8th, 2012

Astronomers are getting to know the neighbors better. Our sun resides within a spiral arm of our Milky Way galaxy about two-thirds of the way out from the center.

NASA Survey Counts Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

May 16th, 2012

Observations from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) have led to the best assessment yet of our solar system's population of potentially hazardous asteroids.

Dusty Star Stands Out From the Rest

April 26th, 2012

Images from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) reveal an old star in the throes of a fiery outburst, spraying the cosmos with dust. The findings offer a rare, real-time look at the process by which stars like our sun seed the universe with building blocks for other stars, planets and even life.

NASA's WISE Mission Sees Skies Ablaze With Blazars

April 12th, 2012

Astronomers are hunting a class of supermassive black holes throughout the universe called blazars thanks to data collected by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer.

NASA Releases New WISE Mission Catalog of Entire Infrared Sky

March 14th, 2012

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.

WISE All-Sky Data Release

March 14th, 2012

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.

WISE All-Sky Release Preview Page

January 12th, 2012

In March of this year, the WISE mission will be releasing data to the public from its all-sky survey.

Stars Pop Onto the Scene in New WISE Image

January 10th, 2012

A new, large mosaic from NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) showcases a vast stretch of cosmic clouds bubbling with new star birth.

WISE Presents a Cosmic Wreath

December 22nd, 2011

Sprigs of holly, a big red bow and silver bells appear to dress up this cosmic star-forming wreath, captured by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE).

Star Explosion Leaves Behind a Rose

December 9th, 2011

What appears to be a giant red rose in space is all that's left of a star that exploded long ago.