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September 10, 2010
WMAP has left the building. A 20 minute thruster burn on 8 September 2010 sent WMAP out of L2 and into a heliocentric orbit. WMAP completed […]
September 2, 2010
The Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has run out of hydrogen in its secondary tank. This is the big one that kept the telescope cold. Now […]
August 20, 2010
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) has finished all of its observations, including 9 years of CMB data, ending with 10 days of calibration tests at […]
August 13, 2010
Every 10 years the US astronomy community ranks proposed projects for the next decade. The 2010 report was released today, 13 Aug 2010, at 08:00 PDT. […]
July 14, 2010
WISE is still being eclipsed by the Earth, an effect known as night for those of us living on Earth, but on 11 July 2010 WISE […]
May 31, 2010
WISE downloaded its one millionth 4-color frameset last night. It was taken 29-May-2010 20:23:14 UTC and centered at (l,b) = (90.33,14.53). The survey continues…
May 18, 2010
Saturday morning I volunteered at the JPL Open House, which was May 15-16 this year. Finally the WISE booth had real WISE data. Tens of thousands […]
May 1, 2010
The Sun has now moved far enough North that WISE is being eclipsed when it passes over the South Pole. The orbit of WISE is inclined […]