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This video highlights the population of tiny brown dwarfs recently discovered by NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
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Scientists have spent more than a decade seeking confirmation of the coolest, faintest type of brown dwarfs
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The asteroid-hunting portion of the mission, called NEOWISE, scanned for asteroids both in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, and those near Earth.
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This animation illustrates the benefits of observing asteroids in infrared light.
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The WISE team is searching through the telescope's two million images to spot never before seen objects.
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This animation illustrates the orbit of 2010 TK7 (green dots), the first known Earth Trojan asteroid, discovered by NEOWISE, the asteroid-hunting portion of NASA's WISE mission..
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This animation shows the progress of the WISE all-sky survey over time.
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This animation demonstrates how WISE surveys asteroids and comets in the Solar System.
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This WISE interactive piece gives an in-depth look into the WISE mission.
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This animation shows asteroids and comets observed so far by NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE.
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This movie stitches together five frames taken by WISE as it orbited Earth during its ongoing infrared survey of the whole sky.
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In its initial six-month mission, WISE will spot thousands of previously unseen space objects
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Go behind the scenes to see how the Delta II rocket and WISE are prepared for launch on this exciting mission.
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Treat yourself to some of the first images from WISE, with music and captions.
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Showing how WISE will orbit Earth, scanning the sky
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WISE Brown Dwarf Simulation
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WISE related news conferences
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WISE is launched on a Delta II rocket on December 14, 2009.
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This animation shows how WISE will
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NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer will provide a map to the universe's hidden treasures.
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View animations depicting how WISE will obtain total-sky coverage in near and mid-infrared.
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View WISE's changing orbit around
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This animation shows a schematic
of WISE’s orbit.
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Starburst galaxy, NGC 253, as viewed from visible to infrared light.
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