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02-28-2010, 11:06 PM
The first images from NASA's new WISE space telescope, which launched in December 2009
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Comet Siding Spring and its ghostly tail streak across the sky in one of the first infrared pictures taken by NASA's new Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope, which were released February 17.
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A brood of newborn stars basks in an orange glow in one of the first false-color WISE space telescope images, released February 17.
Star-driven winds and radiation from the stellar nursery, called NGC 3603, warm the cold dust and gas surrounding the nebula. This radiates the stars' energy as infrared light and forms a green halo.
"You're seeing dust that's been heated up by all the new stars," said WISE's Mainzer.
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The fiery swirl of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor, Andromeda, is captured by NASA's WISE space telescope in this picture released February 17, 2010. The warm, glowing dust in the galaxy's spiral arms is especially visible in the infrared image.
"You can see that it's not a smooth spiral like you might expect," WISE's Mainzer said. "It looks like a hubcap that's been in an accident, and that's one way scientists can tell that our nearest neighbor probably has been in an accident with another galaxy."
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Comet Siding Spring and its ghostly tail streak across the sky in one of the first infrared pictures taken by NASA's new Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) space telescope, which were released February 17.
http://s.ngeo.com/wpf/media-live/photologue/photos/2010/02/18/cache/025890_600x450.jpg
A brood of newborn stars basks in an orange glow in one of the first false-color WISE space telescope images, released February 17.
Star-driven winds and radiation from the stellar nursery, called NGC 3603, warm the cold dust and gas surrounding the nebula. This radiates the stars' energy as infrared light and forms a green halo.
"You're seeing dust that's been heated up by all the new stars," said WISE's Mainzer.
http://s.ngeo.com/wpf/media-live/photologue/photos/2010/02/18/cache/025891_600x450.jpg
The fiery swirl of the Milky Way's closest galactic neighbor, Andromeda, is captured by NASA's WISE space telescope in this picture released February 17, 2010. The warm, glowing dust in the galaxy's spiral arms is especially visible in the infrared image.
"You can see that it's not a smooth spiral like you might expect," WISE's Mainzer said. "It looks like a hubcap that's been in an accident, and that's one way scientists can tell that our nearest neighbor probably has been in an accident with another galaxy."