![The red circle visible in the upper left part of the image is SN 1572, often called “Tycho’s Supernova”.](gallery_images/WISE2010-024-thumb.jpg) |
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The red circle visible in the upper left part of the image is SN 1572, often called “Tycho’s Supernova”.
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![In this infrared view of the Pleiades from WISE, the cluster is seen surrounded by an immense green looking cloud of dust.](gallery_images/WISE2010-025-thumb.jpg) |
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This image shows the famous Pleiades cluster of stars as seen through the eyes of WISE.
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![A glowing blue/white pinwheel-shaped spiral galaxy in field of stars.](gallery_images/WISE2010-022-thumb.jpg) |
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This image is of the nearby galaxy Messier 83, or M83 for short.
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![The large multicolored cloud in the center is an irregular dwarf galaxy that orbits the Milky Way.](gallery_images/WISE2010-023-thumb.jpg) |
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The Tarantula Nebula is a giant star forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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![Comet 65/P Gun's tail is seen in red trailing off to the right.](gallery_images/WISE2010-020-thumb.jpg) |
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Comet 65P/Gunn’s tail is seen here in red trailing off to the right of the comet’s nucleus (near the center of the image).
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![The white dot in the center of the red ring is a giant star. The red ring is a sphere of stellar innards that star.](gallery_images/WISE2010-021-thumb.jpg) |
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This star (white dot in center of red ring) is one of the most massive stellar residents of our Milky Way Galaxy.
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![Two distinct multicolored clouds are visible. The one on the right, which resembles a human heart, is called the Heart Nebula and the one on the left is called the Soul Nebula.](gallery_images/WISE2010-018-thumb.jpg) |
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The Heart and Soul nebulae are seen in this infrared mosaic from NASA’s WISE.
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![The bright white spiral in the center of the image is the Spiral Galaxy.](gallery_images/WISE2010-019-thumb.jpg) |
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This image of spiral galaxy NGC 6744 from NASA’s WISE is a mosaic of frames covering an area 3 full Moons tall and 3 full Moons wide.
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![This multicolored cloud of gas and dust is known as the Tadpole Nebula](gallery_images/WISE2010-016-thumb.jpg) |
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This image from WISE showcases the Tadpole nebula.
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![This multicolored cloud of gas and dust is commonly known as the Seagull Nebula because of its seagull like appearance.](gallery_images/WISE2010-017-thumb.jpg) |
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The Seagull Nebula, seen in this infrared mosaic from NASA’s WISE, draws its common name from its resemblance to a gull in flight.
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![The multicolored cloud of dust and gas, which resembles headwear, in the constellation Canis Major is the nebula known as Thor's Helmet.](gallery_images/WISE2010-014-thumb.jpg) |
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This image from WISE is a view within the constellation Cassiopeia.
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![A bright star, known as Menkhib, is in the upper left hand corner near a red dust cloud. A star forming cloud, known as the California Nebula runs diagonally through the image.](gallery_images/WISE2010-015-thumb.jpg) |
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This image features one of the bright stars in the constellation Perseus, named Menkhib
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![The multicolored clouds compose up a portion of the Perseus spiral arm of the Milky Way Galaxy.](gallery_images/WISE2010-012-thumb.jpg) |
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This image from WISE is a view within the constellation Cassiopeia.
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![Left from the center of the image is a densly packed group of stars which is the NGC 6723 globular cluster containing hundreds of thousands to millions of stars.](gallery_images/WISE2010-013-thumb.jpg) |
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This colorful image from WISE is a view of an area of the sky over 12 times the size of the full Moon. More![WISE launch](images/green_arrow.gif) |
![WISE mosaic of the Soul Nebula. Clouds of all colors surround clusters of stars.](gallery_images/WISE2010-010-thumb.jpg) |
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This WISE mosaic is of the Soul Nebula (a.k.a. the Embryo Nebula, IC 1848, or W5).
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![This pinwheel of stars, dust and gas, which make up IC 342, is similar in size to our own Milky Way Galaxy (one-hundred thousand light-years across).](gallery_images/WISE2010-011-thumb.jpg) |
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The spiral beauty, called IC 342 and sometimes the "hidden galaxy," is shrouded behind our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
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![Mosaic of 3 individual WISE frames spanning an area on the sky about 7 times the size of the full Moon.](gallery_images/WISE2010-009-thumb.jpg) |
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This image from the WISE mission was taken on January 2nd, 2010, during the check-out phase, before the start of the WISE survey.
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![A star frield with red, green and yellow dust at the center.](gallery_images/WISE2010-008-thumb.jpg) |
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A new infrared image from WISE shows a cosmic rosebud blossoming with new stars.
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