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NASA’s WISE Mission Offers a Taste of Galaxies to Come

By Guest PostMay 28, 2011Scienceblue colors, california institute of technology, colorful galaxies, edward wright, flocculent galaxies, grand design spirals, ic 342, messier 51, messier 83, Milky Way, NASA, ngc 2403, ngc 5907, sky, spiral arms, tom jarrett, wide field infrared survey explorer mission, wise

PASADENA, Calif. — An assorted mix of colorful galaxies is being released today by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, or WISE. The nine galaxies are a taste of what’s to come. The mission plans to release similar images for the 1,000 largest galaxies that appear in our sky, and possibly more.

“Galaxies come in all sorts of delicious flavors,” said Tom Jarrett, a WISE team member at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, who studies our Milky Way’s neighboring galaxies. “Our first sample shows what WISE is capable of. We can produce spectacular high-resolution images of the largest galaxies.” (more…)

WISE Delivers Millions of Galaxies, Stars, Asteroids

By Guest PostApril 17, 2011Scienceastronomers, blue star, celestial objects, colorful images of the cosmos, earth, edward wright, entire sky, fengchuan liu, galaxies, infrared wavelengths, nasa. wide field infrared survey explorer, polar orbit, roc cutri, solar system, star forming complexes, universe, wise, zeta ophiuchi

Astronomers across the globe can now sift through hundreds of millions of galaxies, stars and asteroids collected in the first bundle of data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission.

“Starting today thousands of new eyes will be looking at WISE data, and I expect many surprises,” said Edward (Ned) Wright of UCLA, the mission’s principal investigator. (more…)

The Art of Making Stars

By Guest PostApril 5, 2011Scienceabstract painting, earth, edward wright, infrared light, NASA, nearby stars, nebula, reflection nebula, rho ophiuchi, sigma scorpii, splash of colors, star forming complex, wavelengths, wide field infrared explorer, wise

It might look like an abstract painting, but this splash of colors is in fact a busy star-forming complex called Rho Ophiuchi. NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Explorer, or WISE, captured the picturesque image of the region, which is one of the closest star-forming complexes to Earth. (more…)

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NASA’s WISE Mission Offers a Taste of Galaxies to Come

WISE Delivers Millions of Galaxies, Stars, Asteroids

The Art of Making Stars