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May 23, 2013
WISE has released a new dataset. It is a re-processing of the data taken from 1 Oct 2010 to 1 Feb 2011 after all the hydrogen […]
March 21, 2012
WISE has released an all-sky image atlas and catalog of objects in bands infrared bands at 3.4, 4.6, 12 and 22 microns. The scientific data are […]
January 21, 2012
I got up at 6 in the morning and saw WISE pass over Los Angeles from North to South. It was easily visible in binoculars. WISE […]
August 23, 2011
WISE has discovered a new Y class of brown dwarf stars, the y dwarfs, which show methane, water and ammonia absorption. These stars have effective temperatures […]
February 17, 2011
Today (Feb 17, 2011) at 20h UT I sent the command to turn off the WISE telemetry transmitter. No further telemetry passes are currently planned. The […]
February 1, 2011
WISE has completed its survey of the main belt of asteroids and is going into hibernation mode today. While it is sad to see a functioning […]
January 5, 2011
WISE flew through the Moon’s shadow over the North pole during the 04 Jan 2011 solar eclipse. The plot below shows the number of coarse digital […]
December 17, 2010
WISE just found two Near Earth Objects in the last two days: a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA) 2010 XP69 and a half km object that can […]
November 18, 2010
Today (18 Nov) marks 21 years since the COBE launch. 21st birthdays in the US are often marked by binge drinking. So we could have a […]