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The WISE flight system is all assembled!
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Images of the WISE flight system testing
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Images of the WISE spacecraft rendered by artists.
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Images of the WISE payload
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![WISE Solar Array](../gallery_images/solar_array_thumb.jpg) |
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The solar arrays attached to the WISE spacecraft at Ball Aerospace.
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![thumbnail of WISE poster](gallery_images/thumb_WISEposter.jpg) |
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Download the new WISE poster showing the WISE spacecraft superimposed over an image of the Milky Way in infared light.
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This picture shows one of the four WISE detectors: the WISE Mercury Cadmium Telluride Focal Plane Mount Assembly (HgCdTe FPMA).
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An image of the WISE cryostat secondary tank aluminum foam. The secondary tank cools the WISE optics and HgCdTe detectors.
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![Down the barrel of the WISE telescope Thumbnail](gallery_images/thumb_h6.jpg) |
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View looking down the barrel of the WISE telescope.
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The WISE back-end imager optics. This picture shows the imager optics which are mounted at the back of the optical system.
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Initial assembly of the WISE cryostat. The cryostat is a 2-stage solid hydrogen dewar that is used to cool the WISE optics and detectors.
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![WISE Telescope Thumbnail](gallery_images/thumb_h5.jpg) |
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The WISE telescope is an all aluminum optical system that will produce images of the sky with 2.75 arcsec resolution in four infrared spectral bands.
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Seen here is an animated comparison of the constellation Orion viewed in visible and infrared light.
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View an animated comparison of the full Orion constellation in visible and infrared light.
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![Center of the Milky Way](gallery_images/milky_way_thumb.jpg) |
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This is the central region of the Milky Way Galaxy as viewed in infrared light.
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![The Sombrero Galaxy (M104)](gallery_images/sombrero_galaxy_thumb.jpg) |
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A composite of infrared and visible light images from the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes of the Sombrero Galaxy.
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![The Eagle Nebula (M16)](gallery_images/eagle_nebula_thumb.jpg) |
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An infrared image of M16, the Eagle Nebula, taken by the ESA/ISO satellite.
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![Near-Infrared Universe](images/2mass_thumb.jpg) |
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Panoramic view of the entire near-infrared sky reveals the
distribution of galaxies beyond the Milky Way.
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