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WISE has now observed the Galactic Center and is scanning into small positive longitudes. All of the frames near the Galactic Center have such a high […]

WISE continues to find comets and asteroids through its NEOWISE program led by Amy Mainzer. The latest and quite interesting comet found by WISE is Comet […]

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 […]

Minor Planet Electronic Circular 2010-C23 announces the discovery of a comet by WISE: COMET P/2010 B2 (WISE). It’s quite faint – about 20th magnitude in the […]

As of 11:15 UT on 7 Feb 2010, WISE has taken 205674 framesets, each with four images covering 47×47 arc-minutes at 3.4, 4.6, 12 and 22 […]

WISE is now in the Heavens Above orbit database. It will be favorably placed over Los Angeles on the morning of Dec 24, and I will […]

I was trying to watch streaming video from KIPAC about the new CDMS results but the video froze at “Opening the Box” and stayed frozen until […]

My WISE satellite launch December 14! I had to be in the MDC control room, and was told it was impolite to rush out at launch […]

I had another good view of the space station and space shuttle last night, on very similar orbits but about 20 seconds apart. Since it was […]