Infrared Hunt Begins: WISE Starts All-Sky Survey
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 09:28
in Astronomy & Space
NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) began its survey of the infrared sky Jan. 14, 2010. The mission will spend nine months scanning the sky one-and-a-half times in infrared light, revealing all sorts of cosmic characters -- everything from near-Earth asteroids to young galaxies more than ten billion light-years away.