One trillion pixels (ob)served
new comet WISE
February 9, 2010More Comets WISE
March 15, 2010
WISE has observed and analyzed more than 250,000 framesets, each with 4 infrared colors using a megapixel array. So the total number of observed pixels in images with good image quality crossed over one trillion in last night’s downloads. More than 20 percent of the sky has been covered.
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Ned Wright, 65 years old, is a professor at UCLA. He did far-infrared observations using a 102-cm balloon-borne telescope for his PhD thesis, and has since observed with the Kuiper Airborne Observatory, and the space-based COBE, WMAP, Spitzer and WISE missions.
