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WISE assembled flight system
WISE Flight Sytem
The WISE flight system is all assembled!
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Flight System Testing
Images of the WISE flight system testing
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Spacecraft Artist Images
Artist Spacecraft Concepts
Images of the WISE spacecraft rendered by artists.
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WISE Payload
Images of the WISE payload
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WISE Solar Array
The WISE Solar Array
The solar arrays attached to the WISE spacecraft at Ball Aerospace.
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WISE Poster
Download the new WISE poster showing the WISE spacecraft superimposed over an image of the Milky Way in infared light.
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WISE Detector
This picture shows one of the four WISE detectors: the WISE Mercury Cadmium Telluride Focal Plane Mount Assembly (HgCdTe FPMA).
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Secondary Tank
An image of the WISE cryostat secondary tank aluminum foam. The secondary tank cools the WISE optics and HgCdTe detectors.
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Barrel of the Telescope
View looking down the barrel of the WISE telescope.
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Imager Optics
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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WISE Cryostat
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
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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Orion Visible and Infrared  
Orion Visible and Infrared
Seen here is an animated comparison of the constellation Orion viewed in visible and infrared light.
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Orion Flash Animation
View an animated comparison of the full Orion constellation in visible and infrared light.
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Center of the Milky Way  
Center of the Milky Way
This is the central region of the Milky Way Galaxy as viewed in infrared light.
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Sombrero Galaxy (M104)
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)  
The Eagle Nebula (M16)
An infrared image of M16, the Eagle Nebula, taken by the ESA/ISO satellite.
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  Near-Infrared Universe  
Near-Infrared Universe
Panoramic view of the entire near-infrared sky reveals the distribution of galaxies beyond the Milky Way.
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